Re: wired/wireless bridge: a more surefire Linux wireless solution?

James Miller
2005-02-02T23:29:36Z

On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, dave wrote:

> 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.

Thanks for your input, Dave. So it does work as the poster whose comments
I read suggested. I suppose one must be particular about the bridge one
buys: looks like Linksys should be chosen over Dlink, at the least. Anyone
else tried this, and can can you report on hardware?

After I finished my initial post, I realized I had forgotten to mention
those wireless print server adaptors and to ask whether these might have
capabilities to allow using a wired NIC as wireless. I guess they be
geared toward listening on a certain port, so that could interfere. But
they must be capable of broadcasting to dhcp servers for an adress, and be
capable of transferring data into and out of the printer's ethernet
port--for those printer's that have one.