[TriLUG] Failing at Ubuntu Wireless Adapter Crap Shoot

[Adam Gregory]

I had to do the same thing with my G5 tower awhile back since getting a WiFi
card to go in that would have been expensive. I just grabbed an old wireless
router, threw DD-WRT on it and bridged it. Bam! problem solved for free,
where as a PPC Mac compatible WiFi card(i.e. Apple Airport)  would have cost
me probably $100 bucks.
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On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Scott Chilcote <scottchilcote at earthlink.net
> wrote:

> matt at noway2.thruhere.net wrote:
>
>> 3 - can you (obtain and) connect the ubuntu PC to a wireless router via
>> cat-5 cable and use it as a wireless bridge to the rest of your network by
>> way of the two wireless routers?  Caution, subnetting may be required.
>>
>
> Hi Matt,
>
> This is an intriguing notion!  I just happen to have sitting on a nearby
> shelf an old Netgear WG602 wireless bridge that we used years ago, before a
> Linksys wireless router arrived and DD-WRT made life much better.
>
> So I can hook this thing up backwards and use it to sit on our wlan? Whoda
> thunk?  Well apparently someone did, and I'm glad for that. Woohoo!
>
> Thanks for the pointer!
>
> Scott C.
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