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On 28-Oct-07, at 5:26 PM, b.n. wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> Sorry for the slight OT. On Monday I'll have a new shiny MacBook |
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> Pro at |
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> home :) (where I will install Gentoo, of course). For this reason, I'd |
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> like to have wireless at home. |
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> So I'm planning to buy a wireless router to share my current DSL* |
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> connection. Since my knowledge on wireless is practically none (I |
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> never |
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> owned a notebook since 386 days), I'd like to hear what Gentooers have |
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> to say on how to choose it. |
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> I was also thinking about *building* the wireless router by using |
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> one of |
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> the old boxes I have at home and good ol'Tux. Is this possible? In |
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> this |
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> case, what kind of wireless hardware do I need to attach? |
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It sounds like what you really want to get is a Linksys WRT54GL[1] |
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that you can then flash with something like dd-wrt[2] or OpenWRT[3]. |
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Aaron |
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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRT54G#WRT54GL |
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[2] http://dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv2/ddwrt.php |
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[3] http://openwrt.org/ |
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"In the last, lorn fight |
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'gainst the fall of long night, |
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the mountains stand guard, |
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and the dead shall be ward, |
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for the grave is no bar to my call." |
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--The Horn Of Valere |
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