[TriLUG] Network Recommendation Question (could be OT, depending on how you look at it...)

[Craig Duncan]

Randy Barlow wrote:

> So I'm moving into a new house and I want to put my desktop Gentoo
> system in a location that is going to be far from the cable modem.  I
> really don't want to run cables through the house, which leaves me
> with two options that I can think of (any more would be appreciated...).
>
> Option 1: My roommate has a Netgear router that will be carrying
> internet connectivity.  I could buy a PCI wireless card for the
> desktop and set it up to connect to this router.  Any recommendations
> on Linux friendly PCI wireless cards?  Is it going to be a pain to
> configure it to work with WPA?
>

If you want to set up WPA with a wireless card in gentoo you will need
net-wireless/wpa_supplicant package.