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Hi Rob, |
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don't get me wrong, but atheros chipset can be more useful than intel. |
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I mean, it can look hardest to set up at the beginning but its entirely |
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hardware. I have ipw2100 on my laptop too, and i'm pretty happy with it: |
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it allows capturing packets and so on, it has a good range, but i won't |
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never use it as an AP chipset, why? because it uses system's cpu to to |
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make part of the job. |
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So: |
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- - For personal computer use it's ok with ipw2100 |
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- - If you want to set up an AP with linux, use Atheros or Prism54, but |
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the second one is hardest to find. For Atheros I recommend you the Senao |
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cards, they can be powered up wo 200 mW :P |
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Well, I go to sleep, it's late here... 'night! |
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Jordi |
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Rob wrote: |
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> Hello guys, |
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> Well I have decided to concentrate my efforts on my internal mini-pci |
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> card, the Intel PRO2100 WiFi, instead of an external Atheros based |
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> Netgear card. Part of the decision was based on the fact that my Dell |
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> technician said that this card was superior in range to many cardbus |
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> based devices. I didn't know that the card even existed in my system |
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> until the tech came to my house. I thought I had declined it as an |
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> option when I bought the laptop. Haha. It works well in Windows- once |
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> I typed in the giant HEX key for WEP. |
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> So I am wading through the Gentoo procedures required to get it working. |
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> Fortunately there are ebuilds all set up for me. I will unmerge all |
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> the Madwifi stuff. I will wait for Madwifi to mature before I try it |
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> again. Retrieving distributions from CVS doesn't sound optimal for me. |
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> I'm not that much of a computer genious, LOL. |
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> One thing I want to do is to eliminate all of the configuration files |
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> that went along with the Madwifi driver and any associated tools. I |
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> think I saw in the emerge manual some ways to find out what those files |
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> were, or perhaps it was the Gentoo tools. |
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> Sincerely, Rob |
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Jordi Molina Casas (warp3r) |
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mail: warp3r@×××××.com |
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www: www.warp3r.com |
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If you're still sending mail to |
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warper@eresmas, please update your |
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address book, my current email |
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is warp3r@×××××.com |
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