Re: [MLUG] recommended Linux-friendly PCI or USB wireless adapter?

["Jonathan King" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 5/3/07, Mark Rages <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> On 5/3/07, Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> > The other alternative is to find a robustly supported wireless card
> > for the linux box (and its AMD64 kernel) that works well with Ubuntu
> > 7.04. A USB 2.0 dongle thing would be okay, if any of those usually
> > work with Linux, else we have PCI slots to work with (or even an extra
> > firewire port, for that matter.
>
> Good luck finding a Linux-supported wireless card.  I drove all over
> town once looking for one.  You'll probably end up with a PCMCIA
> adapter and a laptop wireless card.

Well, at least you didn't hold back. Ouch.

> The other other alternative is a short network cable to a wireless
> bridge.  The better consumer routers can operate in this mode.  I'm
> using a little dedicated bridge on my print server, the D-Link
> DWL-800AP+.  It works, but I don't recommend this device.  The
> firmware is lousy.

Maybe, but this is actually a pretty good idea; I may even have an
appropriate extra wireless router hanging around...I'll have to check.

We've got a D-Ling wireless g router with our Verizon FIOS; I'll see
if you can bridge a Linksys to that somehow.

jking

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