Re: [expert] Wireless networking with Linux

2002-02-19 Thread Robert Goshko
On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 13:38, Praedor Tempus wrote: > Access points, I don't yet know but I would go with > one that supports web configuration so that it does't > require windoze at all. Did some digging on this, and one of the few access points I could find with web configuration was the LinkS

Re: [expert] Wireless networking with Linux

2002-02-19 Thread Larry Sword
Robert Goshko wrote: > > Greetings all, > > I have been looking at adding 802.11b wireless networking to my home > network and was wondering was products out their have been found to work > best with Linux? > > I have looked into the D-Link series and there are Linux drivers > available for the

Re: [expert] Wireless networking with Linux

2002-02-19 Thread Praedor Tempus
Access points, I don't yet know but I would go with one that supports web configuration so that it does't require windoze at all. The cards...there are many good ones. I have a netgear ma401, cheap and works up to 128 bit wep (you can always use vpn or encryption other than builtin wep with AN

[expert] Wireless networking with Linux

2002-02-19 Thread Robert Goshko
Greetings all, I have been looking at adding 802.11b wireless networking to my home network and was wondering was products out their have been found to work best with Linux? I have looked into the D-Link series and there are Linux drivers available for the PCMCIA cards (I looked at the DWL650 ca

Re: [expert] Wireless networking -- what's your take?

2002-01-15 Thread G. T. Francisco, III
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 12:07:00PM -0800, Charlie Bebber said: > > I've been thinking about it for a while now but never had the desire (or > money) to delve too deeply into it. > > I was at Fry's the other day and almost bought one of the wireless access > points, however I thought I'd do some

Re: [expert] Wireless networking -- what's your take?

2002-01-14 Thread Lee Roberts
At 04:55 PM 1/14/2002 -0800, Charlie Bebber wrote: > >Lee Roberts said: > >> There seems to be a lot of concern over security on wireless networks. >> WEP was suppose to encrypt wireless transmissions but it was quickly >> compromised. I don't know if a suitable, and secure, replacement for it >>

Re: [expert] Wireless networking -- what's your take?

2002-01-14 Thread Charlie Bebber
Lee Roberts said: > There seems to be a lot of concern over security on wireless networks. > WEP was suppose to encrypt wireless transmissions but it was quickly > compromised. I don't know if a suitable, and secure, replacement for it > has been implemented yet. I've read about airsnort and it

Re: [expert] Wireless networking -- what's your take?

2002-01-14 Thread Lee Roberts
At 12:07 PM 1/14/2002 -0800, Charlie Bebber wrote: > >I've been thinking about it for a while now but never had the desire (or >money) to delve too deeply into it. > >I was at Fry's the other day and almost bought one of the wireless access >points, however I thought I'd do some more research and

Re: [expert] Wireless networking -- what's your take?

2002-01-14 Thread Pierre Fortin
Dunno about the products; but I can say that so far, LinkSys has been totally non-responsive to my problems -- just a heads up on the vendor(s). FYI: My problems are outlined at http://pfortin.com/Linux/LinkSys Good luck, Pierre On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 12:07:00 -0800 (PST) "Charlie Bebber" <[EMAIL

[expert] Wireless networking -- what's your take?

2002-01-14 Thread Charlie Bebber
I've been thinking about it for a while now but never had the desire (or money) to delve too deeply into it. I was at Fry's the other day and almost bought one of the wireless access points, however I thought I'd do some more research and see what people's opinions were about the whole wireless

Re: [expert] wireless networking

2000-10-21 Thread Kevin Scott
Lucent makes a product that our local school district has used for routers and I think that D-Link also has a compatable product Kevin On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Vincent Danen wrote: > Does anyone know anything about wireless networking under Linux? I'm > looking to find a brand that works with Linu

Re: [expert] wireless networking

2000-10-20 Thread Jeff Groves
The Wavelan (Orinoco) cards work fine with the latest releases of Mandrake. The pcmcia package contains drivers for the cards, so you don't have to compile anything. There are several brands of wireless cards, but many of them are just OEM versions of the Wavelan stuff and use the same drive

[expert] wireless networking

2000-10-20 Thread Vincent Danen
Does anyone know anything about wireless networking under Linux? I'm looking to find a brand that works with Linux and provides support for my laptop (ie. pcmcia card). I don't know the first thing about wireless, so I'd appreciate any horror stories you may have. =) It's for an article I've b