I do have two protable computers and I need to hook up a few other computers to the network in some other rooms. As it stands right now, hard wireing the computers where I want them is going to be an issue. I am renting a townhome now and cannot put cables in the walls and my better half would not approve of a cable run spanning two floors and a few floors. Jason On Tue July 27 2004 05:19 pm, Nate Carlson wrote: > On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Jason Sievert wrote: > > Anybody out their have any luck with 802.11g hardware, PCI USB PCMCIA? > > What drivers. vendors, distros? What supports the full wireless spec so > > i can use kismit or airsnort and other wireless utills? I am running > > gentoo and fedora and am looking to redo my home with g under those > > distros. > > I've used the atheros-based cards with the madwifi driver, and found it to > be rather unstable. YMMV, of course. > > If you can, I'd highly recommend getting cables to each of your stationary > boxes, and using wifi only for portable machines, when they are not > sitting right by a cable drop. In many cases, wifi in a house can cause > more problems than it solves. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list