Long Range Wireless Technology

PracticallyNetworked lists and compares the main Wireless LAN productsavailable on the market. BernardAdoba has created The Unofficial Security Web Page,with many links about security issues in wireless networks and802. 1x. James Ketrenos and manypeople are maintaining the Ralink RT2400 and RT2500OpenSource drivers, and they have mailing listabout it. David Leonard was working on public domain Proxim RangeLan2 Pcmciadriver for OpenBSD and needs help. Reseau Citoyen is deployingtheir wireless network in Bruxelles, Belgium, and has anextensive amount of information in french.

Lots of linksabout Wireless no longer updated. Instant Networks, Inchave created OpenAP, aLinux distribution which directly on Prism II Access Points such asthe US Robotics, SMC or Addtron Access Points. BAWUG, the Bay AreaCalifornia Wireless User group is pretty active and has some mailing lists.

Looking for Linux, thats the place… Elektrosmog wantsfast Internet everywhere, starting in Sweeden. You can also check the classical Linux on Laptops web site. Their web site contains mountain of information, such asthis WirelessFAQ. Definitely worth read, even if theydont mention Linux support PC MagazineZDnet has done short reviewof 802. 11b products. TillStraumann has created Linux distribution for wireless routers based on LEAF Bering and that cards. Note that Pcmcia development has migrated to thekernel, you can follow this on the new Pcmciamailing list. Linux users in Australia areusing the good old Wavelan or the Wavelan IEEE Linuxdriver.

Reyk Floeter wasworking on GPL driver for the IBM Wireless LAN Entry card aproduct which is discontinued. Lee JohnKeyserAllen was the maintainer of the Orinoco Linux driver. Another excellent Wirelesslink Howto, where they describe in details all the step by stepoperations theory, hardware, software…

Mark Daniel Drake andothers are maintaining the Ralink RT2400 and RT2500OpenSource drivers, and they have mailing listabout it. PersonalTelco has short list of PrismII cards for which manyLinux drivers are available. This allow to do IP bridging on any802. 11 card instead of MAC bridging.

The is also linuxPPPmailing list archive. Looking for Linux, thats the place… 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. Consume the netwant to do the same in the area of Boston. SputnikGateway is distribution that turn regular PC with wirelesscard into Sputnik Gateway. Linux users in Australia areusing the good old Wavelan or the Wavelan IEEE to createpoint to point data link between distant houses. Mark Atmel has aSourceForge projects for their Atmel USB and Pcmcia drivers,with some mailinglists.