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Posted Oct 31, 2008 at 3:32:18 AM
Subject: Wireless hardware advice?
So I'm looking to set up a home wireless network. I don't know much about wireless (which is WHY I want to do this), and all I can't seem to make head or tail of wireless support on Linux. I've currently got a headless Pentium III box (Gentoo) on routing/masquerading duty, and I'd like to give it the ability to serve as a wireless router as well...preferably with a PCI card. I've also got a Pentium IV Dell laptop dual-booting Windows XP and Debian (formerly Gentoo) which could use a wireless PCMCIA card. I'd like to get my hands dirty learning whatever I can about wireless networking (packet sniffing, crypto, the whole package), but I'd prefer not to spend money on something that isn't going to work. In short, I'd like to buy something relatively "easy" to install, known to work well with Linux, and pretty capable. What would you recommend?
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Shashank Sharma
Joined Jan 01, 1970
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Posted: Nov 11, 2008 1:27:39 PM
Subject: Wireless hardware advice?
Many distributions nowadays have their own Hardware Compatibility Lists. You should look through these before buying any hardware. http://martybugs.net/wireless/router.cgi http://ubuntulinuxhowto.blogspot.com/2006/06/setup-your-computer-to-be-router.html There's excellent documentation on how to make your Linux box a router so google search for it and read through as many guides as you can find. Cheers!

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craig/asux
Joined Jun 12, 2008
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Location:sydney

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Posted: Nov 16, 2008 6:48:04 PM
Subject: Wireless hardware advice?
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/ubuntu-networking-configuration-using-comm try this
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