Wireless AP w/ USB WLAN?

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Do, den 04.08.2005 schrieb Belmin (Pub) um 4:46:

> I currently have a machine working as my router using Fedora. I have it 
> setup perfectly with iptables. I'm looking to add wireless capabilities 
> but my PCI slots are full. Anyone been successful using USB? I have no 
> idea where to start (ie, what specifications should I look at when 
> looking at USB hardware)?

You do not speak about what type of WLAN you request: is 802.11b (11
MBit) enough or is 802.11g (54 MBit) requested? If 11MBit is sufficient
you can watch out for old Prism chipset based sticks. If you ask me, I
would anyway watch out for the quicker WLAN standard 802.11g. I recently
pointed here on the list to

http://sourceforge.net/projects/zd1211/

while I can't say something specific about the stability of that open
source kernel driver. A different open source driver project is

http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

where the rt2570 driver is for USB WLAN sticks. Lists of supported
hardware are

http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Hardware
http://ralink.rapla.net/

and can be used as a guide when watching out for hardware to buy.
Hardware differs whether being able to run in AP mode or ad-hoc mode.

> I know with PCI it had to do something with making sure you could set 
> the card to master. How does this apply to USB?

With "master" you speak about PCI busmaster mode? As far as I know USB
it works differently. Simply plug&pray.

> Belmin Fernandez

Alexander


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