On 2009 Jun 2, at 10:00 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2009-06-02, K K <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 7:32 AM, Ben Goren <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> Anybody else have any suggestions? Nick? >> >> I have similar problems with a 'rum' USB stick in AP mode using WPA. >> >> See the man page for specific know issues with using this chipset in >> Host AP mode. >> >> Can anybody suggest a readily available USB2 Wireless-G adapter which >> works well as an AP? >> > > USB wireless adapters do not work well as APs. > > The only ones where we support this at all are ural and rum, and > though they can be useful in a sticky situation where it's all you > have available, they don't make good access points.
With that in mind...are any of these ``wireless bridge'' devices worth considering? I have a spare PC Ethernet card for this laptop. This is one of Amazon's top hits for the sort of thing I'm thinking of. If anybody has any suggestions on the matter, I'd appreciate it.... http://www.amazon.com/Linksys-WET610N-Wireless-N-Ethernet-Dual-Band/dp/B001QVQ7JU/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1243962805&sr=1-2 or: http://tinyurl.com/oe3nsg Cheers, b& [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pkcs7-signature which had a name of smime.p7s]
