Wireless hardware recommendations

2007-06-16 Thread Geoff Shang
Hi, I've got an Edimax wireless router (not sure of the model number as I can't read it),and now need some PC hardware to go with it. 1. I need a PCMCIA wireless adaptor or something else suitable for a laptop. 2. I need something suitable for a desktop PC. Obviously I'm looking for somethi

Re: Wireless hardware recommendations

2007-06-16 Thread Oren Held
I'm very satisfied with the atheros open source driver - www.madwifi.org. This is the atheros based PCI card I bought for my PC: http://www.lamir.co.il/product.asp?product=2213, but maybe there are newer ones, I bought this one in October. G'luck - Oren Geoff Shang wrote: Hi, I've got an Ed

Re: Wireless hardware recommendations

2007-06-16 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 12:02:29AM +0300, Geoff Shang wrote: > I've got an Edimax wireless router (not sure of the model number as I can't > read it),and now need some PC hardware to go with it. If you connect to it with HTTP, it will tell you. EdiMax has the manuals available for download. > 1

Re: Wireless hardware recommendations

2007-06-16 Thread Amos Shapira
On 17/06/07, Geoffrey S. Mendelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is my first step into wireless networking, so any recommendations or > additional advice will be most welcome. It's much slower than a wire. It's fine for Internet access, casual file sharing and printing. If you want to do a

Re: Wireless hardware recommendations

2007-06-16 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 12:51:40PM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: FNN> I realize I'm diverting from the original question (because he's asking > about hardware he already owns) but the 802.11N looks like an almost done > deal. In a computer show a couple of months ago I saw D-Link > 802.11Nhardware whi

Re: Wireless hardware recommendations

2007-06-17 Thread Geoff Shang
> On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 12:02:29AM +0300, Geoff Shang wrote: > >> I've got an Edimax wireless router (not sure of the model number as I >> can't >> read it),and now need some PC hardware to go with it. > > If you connect to it with HTTP, it will tell you. EdiMax has the manuals > available for do

Re: Wireless hardware recommendations

2007-06-17 Thread Oded Arbel
On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 00:02 +0300, Geoff Shang wrote: > Hi, > > I've got an Edimax wireless router (not sure of the model number as I can't > read it),and now need some PC hardware to go with it. > > 1. I need a PCMCIA wireless adaptor or something else suitable for a > laptop. > > 2. I need

Re: Wireless hardware recommendations

2007-06-17 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 02:58:40PM +0300, Oded Arbel wrote: > for example SuSE > 10.2, but getting encrypted wireless to work with them can be very hard. > I managed to get WEP to work with Edimax cards (I have both a PCI > version and a cardbus version) but no WPA (1 or 2). I had no trouble with

Re: Wireless hardware recommendations

2007-06-17 Thread Amos Shapira
getting ANY Wifi card working on a PPC laptop using Ubuntu 7.04. The laptop does not have USB, so it has to be a CARDBUS card. It's definately an http://www.google.com/search?q=cardbus+usb+dongle yields links like http://www.cooldrives.com/smdopcca32us.html so maybe you still have a USB option?