I'm Wireless!!!

[Kevin Brown]

Around $800 for the access point and I believe around $200 for each of the
wireless cards.  All my stuff is Orinoco (spin off of Lucent) and is the Gold
version (128bit encryption).  It's real nice to have, but bloody expensive.  All
my stuff came from egghead.com.  My full network setup is as follows:

Internet
    |
Cisco 675
    |
10/100Mb Hub - Non essential systems
    |          (2 Multias, 1 Win98)
10/100Mb Switch - 100Mb Accesspoint Backplane
    |             (3 laptops, 1 iPaq)
    |
(2 WinNT (dual Xeon), 1 Quad PPro)

Only my laptop and the multias run Non-windows OSes (dual boot for laptop).  I
primarily run Linux on my system at work, too bad I have to use Outlook for
email, damn Exchange server.

> I have been itching to do the same thing... What are the costs involved in
> getting that set up?
> 
> I have a Cisco 675 DSL connection and I use dhcp without a problem.  Well,
> it didn't like dhcpcd but dhclient works great.

> > As I write this email I am using an Orinoco Wireless 11Mb network card.
> > We have three of these in the house for our portables (laptops and an
> > iPaq pda) and an access point (not peer-peer).  Next step is to get it
> > to work under Linux.  I have full 128-bit encryption enabled on the link
> > and use dhcp from a Cisco 675 (dsl box).  Unfortunately I have never
> > been able to get linux to get an IP address from the thing, so I don't
> > know if I can get the wireless card to.  The windows boxen have no
> > trouble.  I wonder what they pass as their parameter to work with it.
> > Oh well, problem for a later date.