From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave Subject: Re: wired/wireless bridge: a more surefire Linux wireless solution? Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 12:18:22 -0900 Message-ID: <4201439E.6000206@dpomeroy.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: James Miller Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org James Miller wrote: >This question is not really Linux-specific, and is maybe more >hardware-oriented than OS-oriented. But being a Linux user, I'd like to >know if/how it might apply to me. It concerns a comment I read regarding >an article on wireless networking with Linux, and it's really something I >had earlier wondered about, though in less specific terms. So, to go on >with my query. > >It seems widely accepted that Linux has spotty support for wireless >networking--at least I read articles and comments to that effect with some >regularity. I wondered, when I first confronted these sorts of problems: >"why couldn't a wireless receiver-type-thing just be hooked up to a Linux >machine's wired NIC to connect said machine to a wireless network?" I >didn't really appreciate the technical aspects involved when I first >thought of this, but now that I've read someone's suggestion about using a >bridge to do just this sort of thing, I might understand better. The >person responding to the article I was reading was basically saying >something like: "why bother with the software problems (lack of drivers >and documentation on chipsets to write them) associated with hooking to a >wireless network in Linux? Just get a wireless bridge and hook it to your >wired NIC and get on the wireless network that way." > >So, let me just ask: is this really some sort of solution to the wireless >support problem under Linux? People objected to that poster's suggestion >on the basis that it was too bulky (extra pieces of hardware like the >bridge and its power adaptor). Maybe it's a bit more expensive, too. But >if this really would work--i.e., allow you to connect to a wireless >network through your existing wired NIC--it could be a solution for at >least some situations. Possible cons would be that a lousy old 10/100 >wired NIC can't match the throughput of the latest 801.11g wireless NIC's >(to which I say; big whoop! 100mbps suits my all my needs and more). >Certainly an enterprising hardware manufacturer could address the >bulkiness problem: I have an external HD, for example, that draws 6 volt >power from the ps2 port. Of course the possibility always exists--and is >in fact quite likely--that there's already some device that does this, >i.e., sort of augments your existing wired NIC with wirless capability >and that I simply haven't run across it yet. > >Feedback will be appreciated. I've probably overlooked or poorly >understand many of the technical details. > >James >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > > > Gang, I use one in my room at my camp where I stay while I work. They wired the camp with Cisco wireless AP's. I use a Linksys ethernet to wireless bridge and it works fine. I had a Dlink but it gave me lots of problems. If you have more questions just ask. Dave - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs