Thanks for the suggestion. Recently I have been looking at the AmbiCom Wave2Net products, specifically their WL1100B PC Card and PCI adapters, but I have to confess that I have been shopping more by price than anything else. Still AmbiCom advertises their cards as Linux supported, and their web site provides installation instructions and source for a driver. What I am wondering is whether I need an access point at all. I was thinking I could stick an 802.11b-compliant card in a PCI slot on my linux box and then use that as my access point. It is already running SuSEFirewall2 to protect my home network, and masquerading itself and my other machines. The laptop would then get a wireless PC card instead of its LAN PC card, and with a little tinkering, I could be surfing the 'Net while watching "Tatort" in my living room. Add an ADSL connection (probably Deutsche Telekom's T-DSL) to the linux box, and life would be good. :-) (Configuration of two NICs and a wireless PCI card in one machine is likely to be a challenge, though.) Cheers, Sean On Friday 12 October 2001 00:34, Jon Pennington wrote:

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I think I need to get more into how cardmgr works. I am considering going to a wireless LAN solution in the next several months (if I can integrate it with an ADSL plan I have), and when I do, I will more than likely have to do some tweaking to get that up and running.

I know, I said I'd be quiet, but I lied. :) I've had *excellent* results with Linksys hardware in the past (aside from the latest revision of the 10/100 PCI card), and if you're looking to go wireless, I believe that their WAP device in the EtherFast line could be configured as a pseudo-bridge, where you can disable the DHCP server on the WAP and use your IP assignments from the Firewall2 product as you like. Minimal tweaking.

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--- "Theo. Sean Schulze" wrote:

Thanks for the suggestion.

No problem. They say that if you like something, you tell one person, and if you don't, you tell 10. I'm the other way around. :)

I have to confess that I have been shopping more by price than anything else.

Bad! Badbadbad!

Still AmbiCom advertises their cards as Linux supported, and their web site provides installation instructions and source for a driver.

I'm a bit *less* skeptical than I was when I started reading this idea...

What I am wondering is whether I need an access point at all.>

With your ideas, probably not. You'd just have three ethernet devices (in, out, wireless) in the end. If you're happy with that, so am I. :)

(Configuration of two NICs and a wireless PCI card in one machine is likely to be a challenge, though.)

I have all confidence that it won't be a problem. You may need to sort out physical placement on the motherboard to make sure that each of the three gets it's own IRQ, but it really should be easy. PCI is cool like that. :) ===== -- -=|JP|=- Hit me! - http://www.xanga.com/cowboydren/ Jon Pennington | Debian 2.3 -o) cowboydren @ yahoo . com | Auto Enthusiast /\\ Kansas City, MO, USA | ICQ UIN 69 67 29 31 _\_V __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com