[NCLUG] Wireless cards and Linux

Sean Reifschneider jafo at tummy.com
Mon Jan 8 22:08:25 MST 2001


On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 09:32:57PM -0700, Matt Taggart wrote:
>people are doing and if they have any recommendations. I want 802.11b gear for 
>compatibility reasons so that rules out the Webgear cheap stuff. I need two 

We got some of the Addtron equipment last month.  The cards are $110 each,
and the AP was around $240.  The AP will pick up DHCP and then do bridging.
A really easy setup if they had just said that anywhere in the documentation.
Instead they send you on this goose chase which resulted in me bringing up
a Windows box and finally getting it working, then realizing that it had
already picked up a DHCP address.

Seems to work fine, but the range is pretty limited.  The webgear cards
work fine, even if I walk down the street.  The Addtron cards have
problems going from the top floor to the basement -- maybe thirty feet.


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