Re: 802.11b cards
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 12:01:50 -0700
"Blars Blarson" <blarson@blars.org> wrote:
> I'm considering getting a wireless card for my laptop (Dell Inspiron
> 8200) running Debian unstable. Cardbus/pcmcia would be best, but it
> also has usb, firewire, and an availabe mini-pci slot. What currently
> available reasonably priced cards work with linux?
Dunno which is best - a miniPCI one or a PCMCIA card... I'm guessing
that the cost of a linux-supported device should be about the same.
What other devices do you own or intend to buy, and how many empty slots
are there? I have a modem, a wireless card, a 10/100 wired card and a
sram card that I want to play with, but I only have two PCMCIA slots in
the unit.
> I'd also like one for my firewall/router running Debian Woody, that
> has usb and pci. I could of course add another ethernet card and use
> a ethernet connected one. (Tunelling IP over ssh or using another
> encryption scheme for security.)
Blars - I've got the exact same setup here. I bought an Intersil
Prism-based chipset (a DLink DWL-500 card which is a DWL-650 PCMCIA card
in a PCI adapter) and on the linux box I use the hostAP module. This
provides all of the functionality of an access point inside the card's
hardware, rather than in software.
Search google for "hostap" and "prism" I'll email you some links from
work later today.
As for security, I have mine locked down to the mac addresses of my two
wireless cards, and I intend to modify my iptables rulesets to be more
selective. SSH isn't really an option cos the hardware on each end
lacks CPU power (one laptop is a a P166, the other a 486)
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