Long Range Wireless Technology

SimonAnderson has Linux Wireless Access Point HOWTO, whichinclude lots of good information on various AP topics HostAP, DHCP,DNS, routing, firewalling, NoCat…. Also, there is an LRP AironetHowto. HendrikJan Heins isnow maintaining an updated version of the Orinoco Linux driver. He has mailinglist about it. David Miller wants all the TCPIP bug reports to go to the linuxNetworking mailing list archive or the linuxNetDevice mailing list archive. The Low CostWireless Network Howto explain how to use the Proxim card tocreate point to point links. NYCwireless wants FreePublic Wireless Internet for New York City. The Linux Pcmciapackage.

Absovalhas one of the exaustive list fromAbsoval. BAWUG, the Bay AreaCalifornia Wireless User group is pretty active and has some mailing lists. Also, there is an LRP AironetHowto. Try to find the unlicensedbands You also want to check mypaper page, especially if you look for either mypublications or SWAP information. The Linux KernelArchive. Personal Telco want tobuild alternative communication networks in the area of London. Werner, alongside the LinuxMobileGuide,keeps long list of laptop specificpages. The State University of Ohio has basic Overviewof 802. 11.

Mark Many mailing lists. Andreas Mohr and histeam are working on the mac80211 kernelstack formerly ieee80211 DeviceScape stack. BenjaminHerrenschmidt has modified the Wavelan IEEE driver to make it workwith the Apple Airport card. The Linux Wirelesswiki has some limited hardware surveys.

PracticallyNetworked lists and compares the main Wireless LAN productsavailable on the market. Paul Foxwas working on driver for the PrismII cards supporting Host APmode and bridging. David Miller wants all the TCPIP bug reports to go to the linuxNetworking mailing list archive or the linuxNetDevice mailing list archive. Personal Telco want tobuild alternative communication networks in the area ofPortland. Ive found really good web page on thedifferent radio products available now quite outdated. Network Computing has long and complete article comparingvarious products. MoustafaYoussef is the maintainer of the mwvlan driver, modifiedversion of wvlan_cs with scanning support.

James Ketrenos andmany people are working on the SoftMAC layer for theIntel ieee80211 stack. Lots of linksabout Wireless no longer updated. This allow to do IP bridging on any802. 11 card instead of MAC bridging. Introduction The devices, thedrivers other Unsupported devicesUsing Win32 driversOther technologiesWireless bridge, HAM, IrDA, BlueTooth, CellularWireless LANs in use Choice, features &interoperabilityWhich vendor How toidentify cardInstallation, configuration& documentationDeployement issues topology, performance, reliability, coverage, security…Wireless Extensions forLinux Wireless LAN technologyoverview MAC, LAN, Layer and other strange words…