Wireless network card setup, Fedora Core 1...

[duncan brown]

Eric Diamond said:
> Tuesday, April 20, 2004 8:55 AM Jay Daniels


> Michael stated pretty clearly that he was trying to install this card to
> connect to an existing wireless network. Hence the comment that this
> machine would not have internet access until the card was running.

as a point of note, i purchased a linksys wireless ethernet bridge and it
works FLAWLESSLY, it's completely transparent to everything else on my
network, it pulls an ip from the wap which keeps everything happy on that
end.  also, it supports WEP and a slew of other features.  grab the manual
from linksys.com / you can buy it at newegg.com

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=33-124-008&depa=1

pick this up with a cheap hub and you won't have to worry about drivers
for your wireless card.  i mean, peanuts to peanuts, this thing runs $83
vs about $60 or so for a single card.  you'd be able to hook up other
machines with your cheap pci network cards without any problem.

just because you can do it in linux doesn't mean you should, KISS.

-d

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