Hi, A collegue of mine wants to go wireless at his home.
Anyone got any buyer tips for a low-maintenance 54Mb brand/model and Centos?
Kind regards Barrie
putting my 2 cents in....
i would look at linksys, a buddy at school has been using a linksys for his laptop that is running debian ( i know not centos) and he said it worked right out of the box..his is dual band too, so that might a place to take a look at.
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He just told me he's going to buy a wireless ethernet bridge. A transparent device that you connect to your ethernet card and will connect wireless to his router. And therefore no drivers needed for the wireless part. Sounds like a good idea to me.
Barrie
Steven Vishoot wrote:
Not specifically related to CentOS, but .11g in general; basically it's not as nice as it was in the .11b era. Due to whatever random factors (I've heard FCC involvement regarding the ability to tweak the wattage), it's increasingly harder to find a complete open source supported .11g chipset.
For instance, Proxim/Orinoco - long known as one of the best .11b cards - moved to using an Atheros chipset inside, who in turn refuses to release the specs (sorta - NDA stuff), which in turn leads to a binary "chunk" (the HAL) as part of the driver. This is causing the driver world a long time to get good, stable drivers for .11g (see madwifi.sf.net regarding this Atheros thing).
Recently a comrade turned me on to "RALink" chipset cards (http://www.ralinktech.com.tw/), who are very open source friendly - not only do they release fully GPL drivers, but they also help the open source project (rt2400.sf.net) and link directly to that from their driver page. As such, I bought a $35 Asus WL-107 pcmcia card (mobileplanet.com) using the ralink chipset, and am trying to help the project with my Fedora Core 3 laptop. See the project page for more.
So, in summary you need to research the actual chipsets used in the target cards, then go looking at the driver situation (whether it be Atheros, Prism2, RALink, etc) -- in 2 years I'm sure they'll be stable, but for right now the .11g world is a bit of a guessing game.
hope this helps, -te
B.vanBurk@fi.uu.nl wrote:
B.vanBurk@fi.uu.nl wrote:
look at the http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/ project. You can run just about any device that is supported on windows.... Having run all sorts of random cards from pci, usb, pcmcia cards using this wrapper, I can confirm this works with CentOS3 ( and now with CentOS4/beta as well ).
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