[SLE] Home PNA (networking via phone jacks)
The April 4 issue of PC Magazine has an article on networking via phone jacks, which for a home network has the obvious advantage that you can avoid the need for custom wiring between the machines. But all the software discussed there is for (ugh!) Windows. The system requires a PCI-based card in each machine. Has anyone heard of a way to use this sort of networking under Linux? Paul Abrahams -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
I don't have an answer to your specific question, but if you can afford it, take a look at Lucent's wavelan. It is not cheap (about $170 per node, and if it is to be used with a desktop you will need to get an ISA adapter as well), but it works great. It is a fast (11 Mbs), wireless network which has Linux support directly from Lucent. You can download from their web site the Linux module and source code is available. Then you can forget about wires. Avi "Paul W. Abrahams" wrote:
The April 4 issue of PC Magazine has an article on networking via phone jacks, which for a home network has the obvious advantage that you can avoid the need for custom wiring between the machines. But all the software discussed there is for (ugh!) Windows. The system requires a PCI-based card in each machine.
Has anyone heard of a way to use this sort of networking under Linux?
Paul Abrahams
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"Paul W. Abrahams" wrote:
The April 4 issue of PC Magazine has an article on networking via phone jacks, which for a home network has the obvious advantage that you can avoid the need for custom wiring between the machines. But all the software discussed there is for (ugh!) Windows. The system requires a PCI-based card in each machine.
Has anyone heard of a way to use this sort of networking under Linux?
Avi Schwartz replied:
I don't have an answer to your specific question, but if you can afford it, take a look at Lucent's wavelan. It is not cheap (about $170 per node, and if it is to be used with a desktop you will need to get an ISA adapter as well), but it works great. It is a fast (11 Mbs), wireless network which has Linux support directly from Lucent. You can download from their web site the Linux module and source code is available. Then you can forget about wires.
Well, the 3Com kit, which works for any number of networked machines, costs $149. So there's lots of reason to be interested in it. It might well be that the 3Com kit would somehow work right out of the box under Linux anyway, if the Linux kernel could work with the adapters. Paul Abrahams -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
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