Subject: Hardware Recommendation: WiFi
From: Fielder George Dowding (fgdowding@iceworm-enterprises.net)
Date: Fri Oct 11 2002 - 11:21:17 AKDT
Greetings all!
There was a nice crowd at the Alaska Computer Society - PC Users
Group's meeting last night. The presentation on satellite broadband
was interesting, but it was the tail-end discussion regarding
wireless that really got my attention.
A few weeks ago (maybe a month or more, no one is taking minutes) at
the Friday night lab session at IDEA, Dee McKinney and Jim Gribbin
set up a WiFi (802.11b) Internet access point. Dee demonstrated
"war-walking" with his laptop. This was the first time my attention
was drawn to the possibilities of wireless.
Last week, the Mabel T. Caverly Senior Center completed a move. No
provision for a 10BaseT LAN was made in the plan for the move. I was
given responsibility for moving the computers etc., and I figured
wireless might be the way to go to set up a (W)LAN without the
problem and cost of pulling wire (there is pots, 25 pair for key
systems). They would gain in flexibility also. So, my attention has
been captured.
Query: What hardware works with Gnu/Debian/Linux? fgd.
---------
To unsubscribe, send email to <aklug-request@aklug.org>
with 'unsubscribe' in the message body.
This archive was generated by hypermail 2a23 : Fri Oct 11 2002 - 11:17:56 AKDT