On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 11:44:07PM -0600, Nate Sanders wrote: >I've taken some recomendations from friends on wireless products. But was >wondering what if any work in linux, or work well in linux? I have a sony >vaio laptop, running 2.4. Anyone have any thoughts to offer? Orinoco makes the wavelan/RG1000 cards and yes, they work great in linux and freebsd. Beware, the apple airport (yes, it's pretty cool.) uses a hash table to turn your password into a 40bit hex key. If you set a password on the airport, you need to convert the password to hex in order to use it in linux when supplying a key for the network, and make sure it follows a 0x to tell the airport, "Hey, I'm sending you my key in hex!" and all will be well. > >I've been told the Airport from Apple and Lucent cards work best.. (but in >linux do they?) We have an airport as well as an RG1000 Gateway, and so far, the airport has a better range although they may be interfering with each other. (The airport claims up to 150 ft. while the rg1000 claims up to 1400 feet, but it's seems to be exactly the opposite, the airport getting almost all the traffic because the rg1000 can't hack it.) If you go with an RG1000 I highly recommend getting extra antenna's for your cards, because the rg1000 can't take an external range extending antenna. Have fun! > >-- >Nate Sanders nate at chef.nerp.net >http://www.damnation.net IRC: darkskull at NEWNET > > > >_______________________________________________ >tclug-list mailing list >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Thomas J. Hudak Systems Administrator Sistina Software Inc. - www.sistina.com Phone: 612.379.3951 Page: 612.318.1967 Fax: 612.379.3952 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20010129/cbbcb0e0/attachment.pgp