On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, rpgoldman at real-time.com wrote:

> 
> Can anyone suggest what would be the best WAP + wireless PCI cards for
> me to buy for a linux system?  More specifically for a network of about
> 5 boxen, mostly linux but with one or two windowses [we hates it, my
> precious].

for desktop boxen, get pretty much any card on a plx adaptor, and then get 
the hostap drivers (google.com)

this is the important part
make sure you have the kernel-sources for your runnig kernel, (for redhat, 
this means installing the kernel sources and editing the makefile, and the 
forth line down or so is says:
EXTRAVERSION = -nncustom <---- remove the custom, (unless that is what 
you are running)
make menuconfig (and quit immediately afterwards, there nothing we are 
going to change)
make dep
in the hostap tree you may have to edit the Makefile to point to the 
kernel tree

make plx
make install_plx
modprobe hostap_plx

from here you can use the iwconfig tools to configure the wireless card,
iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed   (by default it comes as an AP)
iwconfig wlan0 essid <essid>
iwconfig wlan0 key <key>
ifconfig wlan0 <ip> up    <--- or for redhat use netconfig -d wlan0

for pcmcia you will need to download the pcmcia-cs sources.... but should 
otherwise be the same

Munir Nassar
RedConcepts.NET