On 31 Jan 2002, Dave Royer wrote: > I just got the laterst edition of "Linux Journal" in the mail and the > cover story is about setting up your own wireless network at home. > > My question is, has anyone set up a base station using one of the > Orinoco cards? I've used Orinoco cards under Linux; haven't done base station mode, though. (IIRC, they can't become a true base station, just ad-hoc mode..) > I tried playing with the D-Link DWL-650 card which is based on the > Prism2 chip but it doesn't look like it is possible to work with it > without a whole lot of work modifying binary images and updating the > firmware. Nope. If you grab the prism2-hostap drivers, it'll work fine without the tertiary firmware. Otherwise, there are plenty of (illegal) copies of the firmware floating around the 'net that you can get easily. > Looking at a few sites, it seems that the Orinoco cards are much > better supported but before I grab some I wanted to see if anyone has > experience with them versus the Prism2 cards. Prism2 cards work very well once you get everything configured.. -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500