On 9/5/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Nick</b> <<a href="mailto:knowledgejunkie@gmail.com">knowledgejunkie@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Having built another backend for some spares and some new capture<br>cards, I want to get it accessible via WiFi on my network (g-based).<br><br>Could any UK-based users (anyone else is more than free to join in<br>though) suggest any decent PCI wireless network cards, that use native
<br>drivers (not ndis-wrapper) that they can report work well. There seem<br>to a a lot of madwifi supported cards, which would you suggest?</blockquote><div><br>
I'd recommend NOT using a PCI wireless network card at all, but an
external device instead. The easiest to configure by far is an
ethernet-to-wireless bridge. You configure regular ethernet, plug it
into the bridge instead of the switch (or into the switch, and the
uplink of the switch into the bridge if you want to connect several
computers by wire and then all of them to wireless). The next best
thing is USB wireless, but I don't know if any 11g adapters are
supported by Linux, I only tried 11b. The problem with the PCI card is
that the antenna is very close to the backplane of the case and is
nicely shielded. You can get external antennas, but then you'd pay more
than the cost of a USB or an Ethernet wireless device, and it does not
work any better.<br>
<br>
Fedor<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I get a very good connection in the house with my intel-2200 based<br>laptop under RHEL4, so soemthing similar that would allow 1-2 streams
<br>to be transmitted would be ideal.<br><br>The alternative is to use a wired->wireless bridge to do the dirty<br>work, and just stick a NIC in the box, but the bridges cost more than<br>my router/AP did ...<br><br>Cheers,
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