Re: [ubuntu-in] wi-fi solution discussion

2009-02-03 Thread Rohit V Bhute
Hi all, After reading through reviews and checking through the HCL and stock availability in stores, I bought a Linksys WRH54G wireless router and a WUSB54GC USB wireless adapter. The wireless adapter is fully supported out of the box - I plugged it in and it came up in Network Manager with

Re: [ubuntu-in] wi-fi solution discussion

2009-02-03 Thread Ramnarayan.K
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 11:06 PM, Rohit V Bhute rvbh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, After reading through reviews and checking through the HCL and stock availability in stores, I bought a Linksys WRH54G wireless router and a WUSB54GC USB wireless adapter. The wireless adapter is fully supported

Re: [ubuntu-in] wi-fi solution discussion

2009-02-03 Thread Onkar Shinde
A quick look at the router's specifications tell me that it is a DSL router. Which means you are supposed to replace your current modem with this router. This router does not have ethernet WAN port. The four ports are LAN ports. So you can not put the modem on router's WAN side. On a side note,

Re: [ubuntu-in] wi-fi solution discussion

2009-02-03 Thread Rohit V Bhute
Mehul and Onkar, The WRH54G has a dd-wrt firmware available for it - I checked on their site - http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=149761. I plan to use it after getting familiar with the stock firmware's usage. Though its not supported by others like OpenWRT, Tomato, etc. Also,

Re: [ubuntu-in] wi-fi solution discussion

2009-01-31 Thread Onkar Shinde
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Rohit V Bhute rvbh...@gmail.com wrote: snip My main concern is my father's PC. I plan to use a PCI card there. I am not sure whether the Ubuntu machines can support WPA2 on the Wi-Fi cards. At least that is what I understood from [1]. As per my little

Re: [ubuntu-in] wi-fi solution discussion

2009-01-31 Thread Mehul Ved
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Rohit V Bhute rvbh...@gmail.com wrote: So if anyone has setup a home Wi-Fi network with WPA2 encryption on Ubuntu, could they please let me know the card make and model? I am in Mumbai and the same model should be easily found here. I am writing this post from

Re: [ubuntu-in] wi-fi solution discussion

2009-01-31 Thread Raseel Bhagat
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 10:45 PM, Mehul Ved mehul.n@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Rohit V Bhute rvbh...@gmail.com wrote: So if anyone has setup a home Wi-Fi network with WPA2 encryption on Ubuntu, could they please let me know the card make and model? I am in