Wireless ethernet?

[Michael Bilow]

A bit of experienced advice: stick with the Lucent Orinoco hardware.  It
is one of the few brands which we have found to work in nearly all
situations.  Some competing hardware behaves very strangely in many common
configurations.  For example, SMC hardware is effectively incompatible
with most cable modems due to some duplexing problems which will reduce
throughput by a factor of ten.

-- Mike


On 2001-08-06 at 17:18 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:

> Buy a wireless card for your laptop and a base station.  Works great.
> I recommend the Lucent (Orrinco) hardware, but it might be more
> expensive.  You can probably even get away with an Apple Airport for
> your base station, but then you need to find the Java-based admin
> application to actually configure the beast.
> 
> -derek
> 
> David Kramer <david at thekramers.net> writes:
> 
> > 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.

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