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…. Pavel Roskinmaintains the SymbolCF version of the Orinoco driver. Paul Foxwas working on driver for the IBM Wireless LAN Entry card aproduct which is discontinued. PersonalTelco has short list of PrismII cards for which manyLinux drivers are available. Vladimir Ivaschenko hascreated parprouted, daemon for transparent IP Layer 3proxy ARP bridging. You can also check the classical Linux on Laptops web site. Network Computing has long and complete article comparingvarious products.

Looking for Linux, thats the place… Guerilla aim to setup afree network in the area of London. Definitely worth read, even if theydont mention Linux support PC MagazineZDnet has done short reviewof 802. 11b products. Seattle Wireless wantsto build nextgeneration community wireless network. TillStraumann has created Linux distribution for Airport torun Linux directly on the Airport or RG1000 Access Point. Reyk Floeter wasworking on GPL driver for the various cards based on the ATHEROS802. 11a chipset, and had preliminary source code available notyet functional. Michael Buesch andLarry Finger are working on the SoftMAC layer for theIntel ieee80211 stack.

Jrg Albert ismaintaining the alternate driver for Atmel USB devicesoriginally written by Oliver Kurth. Werner, alongside the LinuxMobileGuide,keeps long list of cards, but theinformation on this page is not always correct, so double check. Wireless LAN cards are nowadays comming in Pcmciaform, and thats what you need. Lots of info about Linux, all the docs and Howto how toset up networking on you Linux box and tons of links. Mathews has developped the linuxwlan stack, usedby the linuxwlan driver.

Intersil formerly Harris has lot of whitepapers, but they tend to have very complete page on Linux BlueToothsupport, linking to all information available on the on thissubject, but hasnt updated it in since BenjaminHerrenschmidt has modified the Wavelan IEEE to createpoint to point data link between distant houses. Mark Wallis and Ivo vanDoorn are maintaining the binary Atheros driver,and have mailing listabout it. Tarmo Jrvalt has long listsof cards containing various chipsets, one page per chipset,including some Google Ads. He has amailinglist about it. Jrg Albert ismaintaining the alternate driver for Atmel USB devicesoriginally written by Oliver Kurth.