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Mark Rages 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.
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.
I guess I had a different experience, at least wih FreeBSD. They list
all the supported cards on their web site, and the few I tried worked
just fine. But FreeBSD also comes with the ndis driver which in many
cases allows FreeBSD to connect with the windows network driver. I use
this extremely successfully with my internal wireless card on my dell
laptop.
Now if FreeBSD does it, I would be certain that Linux does it, because
Linux tends to have better hardware support. For example, I think this
ndis thingy was originally a Linux thing. Yes, this is it -
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/joomla/
Anyway, a google search picks up quite a few hits for linux compatible
wireless cards.
Stephen
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