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

["Jonathan King" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 5/3/07, Diana Hargus <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> Jonathan
>
> If you want it, I have a Belkin F5D6050 (only 802.11B, but it is free) that
> some people have gotten working in linux (see
> http://at76c503a.berlios.de/devices.html for more info on wireless linux).

That's a generous offer, but you should probably keep your kindness
closer to home. For that matter, I am trying to clear all the B
devices off the home wireless network because they do seem to degrade
wireless performance.

Meanwhile:

> Yeah, right, the one we have is firewalled 7 days from sunday and loops back
> through our state connection, so we can't get out of our network and HAVE to
> access it with VPN; a fat lot of help that is to test with.  At least we
> kiddies won't worry about getting out of the playground, but we can get out
> of the sandbox now...

It was not until I got the current job that I was really aware of the
"joys" of VPN. I am pretty sure that in our environment it does save a
lot of potential grief, but every once in a while it becomes an
enormous PITA. Fortunately, I don't have to test anything, and if I
complain about something going wrong, our people have to get it fixed
(and they are a very good bunch of IT people, by the way).

jking

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