Re: Any suggestion of buy a wireless pci card?

["M.Hockings" <veeshooter hockings net>]

frank franklipski com wrote:

> I use the orinoco Gold card for my laptop, and a usb ethernet adapter for
> my Desktop.  (not sure of the brand right now, but it is blue in color)
>
> I also use the smc wireless barricade as a router.
>
> All are easily found online to purchase, and work great under linux.
>
> Frank
>
>
>  
>
> > On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 02:46, Richy wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > I plan to use wireless network with my Fedora Core 1 at home. I got two
> > > PC in my home, one used by my wife is a laptop with winxp, the other
> > > desktop with fedora used by myself. I want to install a wireless LAN in
> > > my home and connect to internet by ADSL.
> > >
> > > So, it seems that I need a wireless access point with ADSL and a
> > > wireless pci card. Is there any suggestion about purchase a wireless pci
> > > card for my fedora? I usually find buy a hardware for linux need more
> > > attention.
> > >      
> > Search the archives, search google.  Use what others have used.  Orinoco
> > cards are very popular, I like the old prism2 cards and their HostAP
> > features.  Find a chipset that's well supported, then with the range
> > you'll need.
> >
> > --
> > Jason Dixon, RHCE
> > DixonGroup Consulting
> > http://www.dixongroup.net

Just my $0.02. 

I've found the orinco cards to work just fine but the SMC Barricade's 
wireless handling tends to crash if pushed by a single user or have more 
than one user doing many transactions (downloading whilst browsing, 
whatever).  This seems to be excabarated if there is a wireless XP 
machine.  We've not seen the same problems with D-Link (like a rock!) or 
Linksys wireless routers.

If you run wireless I'd at least enable WEP to stop casual users from 
connecting to your network (unless you want them to that is).

Mike