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[ILUG] Wireless LAN

[ILUG] Wireless LAN

Paul Jakma paul at clubi.ie
Mon Aug 8 00:23:57 IST 2005


On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, David Jamison wrote:

> So in terms of hardware am I right in thinking that I need 
> something like a NETGEAR WG602 54 Mbps Wireless Access Point and

It's fairly old now (the WG602v2 anyway), there's a better one iirc.

> (for the desktop machines) two wireless NICs a la NETGEAR WG311 54

Is that a Prism54 softmac card? You can no longer get the linux 
compatible prism54 'hard' MAC hards afaik (least not from Netgear). 
You might want to investigate further..

> Finally finally could the printer work wirelessly or am I asking too much?

Unlikely for a cheap one, but you can always hook it up to your 
central server and have it act as print-server.

regards,
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