From: Wesley Darlington (wesley at domain blackstar.co.uk)
Date: Sat 09 Jun 2001 - 17:39:33 IST
Hello,
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 01:00:52PM +0100, Barry Redmond wrote:
> Anyone any suggestions on good sources for wireless lan
> hardware? I'm looking for a base station and a couple of (linux
> compatible) pcmcia cards. List prices seem to be v high. There
> must be lower price stuff (that still works) somewhere !
I like apple base stations. A java configurator is available if you
don't keep a wireless-enabled mac about the place. (*)
I use a buffalo pcmcia card in my laptop and a d-link dwl-500 in
my pee cee. The d-link is a dwl-650 pcmcia card and a ricoh pcmcia
to pci adapter.
The base station cost me UKP230 (apple.com/uk), the buffalo card
cost work about UKP120 (insight, iirc) and the d-link card combo
cost me about UKP150 (dabs).
> Are there any issues with using 802.11 cards with Linux? I
> presume drivers for common cards are available.
Both the buffalo and dlink cards can use the wvlan_cs driver. It is
part of the pcmcia-cs package.
HTH,
Wesley.
(*) Something I have discovered about apple base stations (and, I
assume, base stations in general) is that they won't talk to other
wireless base stations wirelessly. :-( When your wireless ethernet
is in base station mode, one node is first among equals, the base
station. Apple base stations insist on being The One.
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.6 : Thu 06 Feb 2003 - 13:10:36 GMT