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tfosorcim
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 Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 7:56 pm Post subject: USB WLAN device |
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I need recommendation on which USB WLAN device to buy:
- 54Mbit or better
- WPA
- my linux pc should be able to act as an access point with that device.
TIA Matthias |
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nevynxxx
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After having looked for a PCI Wireles NIC that can act as an Access Point and a USB WNIC too, all I can say is....Good Luck!
I decided on some Edimax kit, but it looks like I will have to go to OpenBSD for the acces Point functionality.#
3com have a specific travel access point, that i USB, but I don't know about linux support, that looks good.
Also note if you have USB1 or 1.1 you ar limited to 11Mb/s anyway.....
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tfosorcim
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| Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 7:37 am Post subject: |
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Thanks nevynxxx!
Then it's probably better to buy a stand alone access point and connect it via ethernet to my machine... |
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nielchiano
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| Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 12:10 pm Post subject: Re: USB WLAN device |
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| tfosorcim wrote: | | I need recommendation on which USB WLAN device to buy: |
I've been looking for this for more than a year... and bought a PCMCIA card 
I choose a atheros chipset, with the madwifi drivers. And those don't support USB (yet) |
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