[ILUG] Wireless LAN and Linux.

[Bernard Tyers]

On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, John P. Looney wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 02:06:48PM +0000, Jonathan Barry mentioned:
> > 	FYI there was also a meeting to try and make this is standard offereing 
> > for connectivity at NANOG,IETF,RIPE,Apricot conferences. does anyone 
> > know a local Source of wavelan cards, or has anyone on the list played 
> > with them under Linux.
> 
>  Ask me in a few weeks ;)
> 
>  Apparently the boss is getting a base station & a few PCMCIA cards, so
> people can move around the office, or walk into the conference room,
> without worrying about network cables etc.
> 
>  Think the price of a base unit is about £2000, and it's about £300 for
> each 2mbit PCMCIA card after that. Not 100% sure though.


also check out www.l0pht.com and look at 
http://www.l0pht.com/~oblivion/radionet/radionet.html

info on wavelan nics:
http://www.l0pht.com/~oblivion/radionet/reference/wavelan/wavelan.html
http://www.l0pht.com/~oblivion/radionet/reference/wavelan/systemf.html
http://www.l0pht.com/~oblivion/radionet/reference/wavelan/docs.html
http://www.l0pht.com/~oblivion/radionet/reference/wavelan/warez.html
http://www.wavelan.com/
http://www.l0pht.com/~oblivion/radionet/reference/wavelan/sin_wavelan.html

hope this is of help,

AFAIK I went looking for distributors of wavelan cards, in ireland, and
didn't find any..not sure now tho'

laters,
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...bernard..
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