[CLUE-Tech] Wireless LAN solutions?

[Jed S. Baer]

On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 20:04:08 -0600
Sean LeBlanc <seanleblanc at americanisp.net> wrote:

> Has anyone had much experience with wireless cards. I was wondering if
> 802.11b works well with FreeBSD/Linux. I was doing some groups googling,
> but didn't turn up much that was definitive.

Regrettably, I'm moving this week, so a lot of stuff is already boxed up.
I recall reading about this not too long ago, maybe in Linux Journal, or
Linux Magazine?

http://www.linuxjournal.com/
http://www.linuxmagazine.com/

Also try the linux hardware database - http://lhd.datapower.com/

IIRC, the Lucent prism hardware is supported.

I recently also read an article about the various security issues, maybe
on ARS Technica?

Running "make xconfig, and punching up the help for wireless, 2 URLs

http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html
user-level drivers for scarab devices: ftp://shadow.cabi.net/pub/Linux

Also, listed in the wireless config dialog are AT&T Wavelan, Aironet,
Cisco, and Hermes (Orinoco,Wavelan,Prism,Symbol) (some are PCMCIA).

FWIW, wouldn't it be cool to set up a WLAN at the CLUE meetings?

jed
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