Re: OT: Wireless NIC to NIC; need WAP?
On Sat, 2002-03-16 at 16:34, Kent West wrote:
> I've got two Debian (Sid) boxes in different parts of the house. Can I
> put in a wireless NIC into each one of them, and them talk to each
> other, or must I have a Wireless Access Point as an intermediary?
You don't need no stinkin' WAP. ;) I've done exactly this -- Setup a
Ad-Hoc wireless network between a server and my laptop (Both Debian
Woody). It works well.
> Also, as long as I'm on the subject. Typically I'd buy some name brand
> I'm more familiar with, like D-Link or Netgear, but the Siemens box
> specifically mentions that Linux is a compatible OS. For that reason,
> I'd like to throw my money toward Siemens. Any technical reasons not to?
I'm using Orinoco Silver (56bit WEP) PCMCIA cards with a PCI->PCMCIA
converter in the server. They weren't terribly expensive ($70) and have
some features that aren't present on many other wireless cards,
including a spot to plug in an external antenna. pcmcia_cs recognized
everything from the start, using the orinoco_cs module. All I had to do
what set the IPs, routes, and change the mode on the wireless cards to
Ad-Hoc with iwconfig. It was very simple. :) I've switched to
Orinoco's official driver after having some intermittent dropped
connections with orinoco_cs, they appear to work better. Driver support
for the Orinoco cards in Linux is excellent. :)
> And one more: why can't I find a PCI wireless NIC, instead of a PCI
> wireless NIC adapter plus a wireless PCMCIA NIC? To me, that seems
> stupid. (But then, someone mentioned that the Apple wireless Airport
> basestation does the same thing; puts a wireless PCMCIA nic in an adapter.)
I believe the real PCI wireless cards use a slightly different chipset,
which may not be fully supported yet. I could be totally wrong though.
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