>>>>> "NC" == Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> writes:

    NC> On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Jason Sievert wrote:
    >> Anybody out their have any luck with 802.11g hardware, PCI USB PCMCIA?  
    >> What drivers. vendors, distros?  What supports the full wireless spec so
    >> i can use kismit or airsnort and other wireless utills?  I am running
    >> gentoo and fedora and am looking to redo my home with g under those
    >> distros.

    NC> I've used the atheros-based cards with the madwifi driver, and found it to 
    NC> be rather unstable. YMMV, of course.

    NC> If you can, I'd highly recommend getting cables to each of your stationary
    NC> boxes, and using wifi only for portable machines, when they are not
    NC> sitting right by a cable drop. In many cases, wifi in a house can cause
    NC> more problems than it solves.

Unless your house is lath-and-plaster construction, of course!  I
still recall the expression on the cable-puller's face when I asked
him about putting some cat5 in my house!  He just told me to get WiFi
and couldn't get out fast enough! :-)




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