On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Tony Preston wrote:
> I wanted to get the networking going on the Linux side, but so far have
> had zero results finding any support from linksys or Broadcomm. The Win
> 98SE side is working, but my desire is to get linux talking to the
> net...
Linksys, Siemans, Speedstream, and D-Link are all notorious for screwing
the Linux community with proprietary and unsupportable chipsets. If you
plan to buy a wireless card (rather than an AP), I'd strongly recommend
the Orinoco products, which are the baseline used for the wireless-tools
package.
With the single exception that it only runs at half-duplex, the Orinoco
APs are rather nice, too. I had a Linksys AP, too, but it caused too many
WEP problems with non-Linksys cards. A decent AP is usually only about
$10-20 more than a wireless PCI card anyway, so that may be a better
solution for your desktop anyway.
> Question 3: Are there any programs that will read the wireless signal
> stregth, and other info like under win 98?
Wireless-tools contains a console program called iwconfig. The following
should suit your purpose pretty well:
# If you don't close stderr, iwconfig barfs all over the screen
# when run under watch.
watch iwconfig <interface> 2>&-
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