[TriLUG] Wireless net equipment

Chris Knowles knowlesc at telocity.com
Thu May 30 11:01:30 EDT 2002


I'm fond of the Orinoco RG1000 Residential Gateway to connect the
wireless to the LAN.  You can configure it from windows or linux, and it
seems to work well.  I've also used the Linksys wireless router, and
don't hate it.

CJK

On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 11:37, jeffj at ro.com wrote:
> A friend of mine is asking me for help on setting up a wireless LAN in his home, but I haven't setup such a LAN myself. He wants to augment a wired LAN for use with a couple ThinkPads, one running Linux, the other running Windows. He also has a server/router/firewall running Linux.
> 
> What equipment would work best for this kind of setup? I've looked around some and it sounds like Orinoco or Prism II PCMCIA cards would work well. As for getting the wireless systems connected to the wired LAN, I don't know what would work well. Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks for any help!
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