<quote who="Wade Preston Shearer"> > i have a powerbook and am about to get another for my wife. i also have > a linux box that i am going to use as a server. i am about to get DSL > and my intent is to run the DSL into the server and then broadcast it > out into my apartment to be picked up my the powerbook's built-in > airport cards. > > my question is... what is the best to use for the wireless nic > broadcaster in the linux server? can i/should i use an apple airport > station? something else? (cheaper is better, obviously).
A prism based PCI card should work very well with the prism2_cs driver (from the linux-wlan-ng project). However, the time you invest in setting it up will probably cost way more than setting up a simple Linksys wireless access-point/router. They are incredibly easy to setup. Setting up your Linux box to NAT a connection will require expertise, while setting up a Linksys requires two chimps: one to plug it in and the other to pick fleas off his back. It's trivially simple. --Dave ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
