[MLB-WIRELESS] DSL & Wireless

[vak at alphalink.com.au]

/me puts on flame suit ready for action....

I thought linux and easy were two mutually exclusive words ?

There are *apparently* a few PCI wireless cards that work under *nix.

(I have been told that the $60 no name cheapies that can be found at your
average computer shop do work).

A suggestion for easily bough PCI card is the NetGear MA311.

So it goes DSL/Router -> AP ->Linux wireless or Windows wireless.

If you're keen on security, I'd suggest picking up a router that supports
IPsec VPN termination.

Cheers,

Vaskos



Original Message:
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From: Ryan Abbenhuys sneeze at alphalink.com.au
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 19:37:36 +1100
To: midwaym19 at ozemail.com.au, melbwireless at wireless.org.au
Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] DSL & Wireless


don't get an all in one Wireless/DSL Router
This limits your options substancially.

get a good stand-alone DSL Router, then get yourself whatever access point
you want and attach it to the LAN port of the router.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason Clarke" <midwaym19 at ozemail.com.au>
To: <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 7:11 PM
Subject: [MLB-WIRELESS] DSL & Wireless


> Friend of mine.
> Getting DSL..
> Renting.. Landlord looks down on knocking holes in walls.. Dunno why :-)
>
> Anyways. The only DSL point is a little ways from the computers in the
house
> which in turn have a pesky wall between them..
>
> Can someone reccomend a way to setup the following with appropriate (read,
> driver support) hardware..
>
> DSL Router / Access point (combo would be good).
> Linux based workstation.
> Windows based workstation.
>
> The linux one would like the be an 'easy' setup, ie, none of this fudging
> with machine code :-) so a bridging AP would be good, but it would also
need
> to work in conjunction with the Windows one which due to $ we would like
to
> put in a PCI card.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
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