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Wireless ethernet?



On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, David Kramer wrote:

> Is anybody doing this with Linux?  I would love to be able to use my
> laptop anywhere in the house.
>
> Ideal would be the kind that uses a "base station" that plugs into the hub
> and talks to a Linux-compatible PCMCIA card.


   I helped a co-worker set up a connection between the D-Link base
station (DWL-1000AP) and PC Card NIC (DWL-650) last fall.  This was in a
Toshiba Satellite running Red Hat 6.2.   IIRC it was pretty painless, but
having a Windows machine available to configure the AP helped out.


-- 
     -Matt

I've already told you more than I know.

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