combo wireless and wired home network

[Mike Burger]

On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, Harry Putnam wrote:

> Mike Burger <mburger at bubbanfriends.org> writes:
> 
> > All you need is a WAP (I'm using a Linksys unit, myself) and a PCMCIA 
> > wireless NIC that is compatible with Linux.  I'm using an Orinoco Gold 
> > card, but it's an "older" one, before chipsets were changed.  Check the 
> > hardware compatibility list for recommendations, first, and get one from 
> > the list.
> 
> A WAP eh?  Googling that turns up lots of confusing stuff.  Are we
> talking involving a wireless phone here:
> 
> Can you spell this out a little more please?

Wireless Access Point.  For example, I'm using the Linksys WAP11, which is 
their 802.11b access point.  Think wireless router, without the 
router...it's just the wireless connector.

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