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David Johnson wrote:
Out of interest, would anyone have a use/desire for wireless access to the network at the meet? If so, I have just bought an AP so this would be do-able (as long as it arrives in time).
Maybe
Has anyone got any wireless hardware working (particually USB) under Linux? I'd be interested to know what it's like to set-up.
Yes - lots. It can be easy or hard to set up, depends on the cards and hardware. I did Intel PCMCIA to ISA converter and Lucent Silver cards first time, really easy. Prism I cards were a pain. In most cases I've used PCMCIA_CS latest version, and not the kernel PCMCIA stuff (it worked once!), but Linus has been working on that in 2.4.15 (I think) and later so really new systems may work out of the box. DCLUG has it's own wireless LAN mailing list, it is very quiet! I haven't seen USB 802.11b cards under Linux yet, there was a sourceforge project to do a driver (virtually all the USB cards use the same chipset - so you know which to buy now!) but it hadn't got very far last time I looked. Theo and myself are regular 802.11b users on GNU/Linux, although his is probably secured in sensible ways, mine tends to use WEP and OpenSSH. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.