Wireless networking [was Re: [NCLUG] Re: Sean's Social Hacking]

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 10:43:47PM -0700, Quent wrote:
>The thing that counts is that I can sit at the dining room table and do
>wireless Internet access via the DSL connected firewall that's in the
>basement; I can roam about the house too. (as soon as I get some wireless
>networking gear)

I was really tempted by the older Zoom cards, but at $200 could never bring
myself to buy them.  The WebGear cards were $150 for a pair and the card
to use it in a PC, so a bunch of us snapped them up.  It's nice to go to
somone else's place and connect up.  Wireless is more useful than I ever
imagined it would be.

Personally, I'd recommend staying away from the Prism-II chipsets and instead
going with the Wavelan cards.  They're $160 per card, but they're much better
supported than the Prism-IIs it seems.  RedHat 7 includes the drivers so you
can do a wireless net install if you use wavelans it seems.

One Prism-II driver (wlan_ng) seems to drop the connection fairly easil and
you have to re-insert to card to get back on the net.  It includes no adhoc
mode support and not even any statistics generation.  Also seems limited to
2mbps use I think.  The pcmcia-cs wvlan_cs driver mostly works, but under
heavy load it completely locks up the system for 15 to 30 seconds every
5 minutes or so...  Need to try that driver mentined previously in this
thread...

Sean
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