On Friday 23 May 2003 15:06, Ben Francis wrote:
Worringly there have been several messages recently claiming that there are no 802.11g cards yet that run on Linux. I'd love to know if anyone knows any different as I'm very interested in the proposed service.
I didn't mean to worry you too much Ben :o) One possibility is that you could use a 802.11g Access Point in client mode (I know that at least some of the D -Link ones support this) then simply connect to your machine via ethernet. Actually in some respects this may be a better option if you wanted to let more than one machine use this service. Of course whether or not 2xp (or their infrastructure) would support this is another matter.
There was recently a lot of activity on Slashdot regarding this article http://www.computerworld.com/mobiletopics/mobile/story/0,10801,81450,00.htm l ?nas=PM-81450 which claims that the latest (and possibly final) draft specification released for 802.11g by the IEE will drop the original 54 meg speed to around 20 meg, quite a significant difference.
Yes I was reading that today, quite worrying isn't it. I heard that it's partly to do with interoperation issues between b and g· which is odd as the two are supposed to be compatable.
Sorry if this seems a little off topic, but my main concern is that I won't be able to use the proposed wireless internet in Linux. Perhaps there are some 802.11b products that run on Linux and will be compatible with the service?
Again 802.11g is supposed to be backward compatable. A 802.11b card should be able to associate with a 802.11g Access point. So this should be possible. (again if the provider and their infrastructure support it)
Regards Wayne