[MLB-WIRELESS] How low-cost 802.11b and Linux have improved my life

[Barry Park]

And the great lord Roblimo did speaketh thus about Linux and wireless...
- Barry


How low-cost 802.11b and Linux have improved my life
 Thursday November 28, 2002 - [ 09:05 AM GMT ]
Topic - Advocacy
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller -
I was in the computer section of Circuit City, a major consumer electronics
retailer, when I saw an 802.11b wireless router on sale for $89 (after $30
mail-in rebate). A salesman walked up and asked if he could help me. I
asked, "Can you tell me if this works with Linux?" He said, "It sure does."
This short conversation tells you just how far Linux has come in the last
few years, and the router itself shows how far wireless networking has come.
I remember when coworker Jeff "Hemos" Bates (of Slashdot) started
experimenting with a wireless home network. The wireless access point cost
him close to $400 and the PCMCIA cards cost nearly $200 each. He had to
download and compile software to run the PCMCIA cards, and was forced to use
a Windows computer to set up the access point, and getting everything
working took him an entire weekend.
This was two years ago.
More at http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/11/20/1413252.shtml?tid=19




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