Long Range Wireless Technology

Wireless LAN cards are nowadays comming in Pcmciaform, and thats what you need. DelbertK. He has amailinglist about it. OpenWRT is wirelessdistribution targetting various Home Wireless Routers, such asthe famous Linksys WRT54G Access Points. Bas Vermeulenhas developed driver for the Elsa MC2 and ZCOMWL24 devices originally written by ZCOM and Elsa. Intersil formerly Harris has lot of whitepapers, but they tend to have very strong bias towards what theyare offering. Mathews is the maintainer of the Orinoco Linux driver. Sam Leffler andMichael Renzmann are maintaining the binary Atheros driver,and have mailing listabout it.

TillStraumann has created Linux distribution for wireless routers based on LEAF Bering and that cards.

Another excellent Wirelesslink Howto, where they describe in details all the step by stepoperations theory, hardware, software… of using the Symphony orother Wireless LAN as point to point links. They have setup mailinglist, which is not Wavelan specific and very useful. Their web site contains mountain of information, such asthis WirelessFAQ. Dag Brattli was themaintainer of the Xircom Netwave Linux driver and the LinuxIrDA Project. Wireless LAN cards are nowadays comming in Pcmciaform, and thats what you need. Seattle Wireless wantsto build nextgeneration community wireless network. Toms Networking hasfrequent detailed reviews of various wireless hardware.

PersonalTelco has short list of 802. 11g cards comaptible withLinux. Definitely worth read, even if theydont mention Linux support PC MagazineZDnet has done short reviewof 802. 11b products. Tarmo Jrvalt has long listsof cards containing various chipsets, one page per chipset,including some Google Ads. JasonHecker maintains list of all Atmel USB devices. They have mailinglist for the 39454965. The web page of Donald Becker who has authored Linux Ethernet drivers butnot the HP 100vg driver use on my PCs..

Elektrosmog wantsfast Internet everywhere, starting in Sweeden. This allow to do IP bridging on any802. 11 card instead of MAC bridging. Werner, alongside the LinuxMobileGuide,keeps long list of cards, but theinformation on this page is not always correct, so double check. YangHweeTAN has quick Howto about Building Secure Wireless AccessPoint using the HostAP driver and FreeSWAN. JasonHecker maintains list of all Atmel USB devices. David Gibsonis the author and maintainer of the Orinoco driver. TheNetworkManager team has complete list of hardware and driversthat works properly with NetworkManager. Most manufacturer web sites are listed in theHowto…