[ale] Wireless/where's the archive?

[Joe Knapka]

Thanks for the info (to everyone who replied).

I take it you are using the external Ethernet-to-wireless
converter boxes, not the internal ISA-to-PCMCIA card?

-- Joe

hirsch at zapmedia.com wrote:
> 
> Joe Knapka writes:
> 
>  > Is anyone using the Lucent Orinoco 802.11b wireless network
>  > cards under Linux? How about the Orinoco "residential gateway"
>  > access point? I want to let my NT laptop talk wirelessly to
>  > my existing wired network, and continue using the Linux masq
>  > firewall for Internet access. I've heard bad things about
>  > the Orinoco access point though, so I'm considering buying
>  > a pair of PCMCIA cards and using an ISA<-->PCMCIA adapter to
>  > shoehorn one of them into the firewall. Anyone tried something
>  > like that? Any recommendations for alternatives?
> 
> Here's what I have at home:
> 
> My cable modem connects to my linksys masquerading router with built
> in 4 port hub.  The hub connects (via nullmodem ethernet cable because
> the uplink port is already in use) to the orinoco ethernet/wavelan
> converter which has a orinoco pcmcia card in it.  This is in my study.
> 
> In my living room I have a the converter/pcmcia combo plugged in to my
> zapstation which is really just a linux box with an 10/100 ethernet
> port.
> 
> I forget the option name, but there are two configurations for the
> orinocos and I'm using the non-default one.  I think they call it an
> "ad-hoc" network setup.  The zapstation now runs DHCP which gets an IP
> address from the LinkSys router.  It is speedy and fast and protected
> behind the linksys firewall.  I think it would work just as well
> behind a linux router.
> 
> I haven't yet put the orinoco in my laptop.  Or rather, I did but
> couldn't figure out how to make it work in a half hour.  I know people
> who use them.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> 
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