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David Bell wrote: | | would I need to upgrade/replace my current P200 Ipcop box which only has 32Mb | RAM?
When access points were expensive - you only NEEDED them when you have two access points on the same physical (wired) LAN allowing you to roam between access points (rather like mobile phones roam). i.e. the physical ethernet extends the range of the "ethereal" ethernet.
Now access points are dirt cheap, there is even less reason technically to have them (as almost all the features are found in the Linux kernel and related software), but the money saved in hardware often isn't worth the extra effort in configuring it.
Just two or three machines will work in ad-hoc mode fine, and it probably isn't any harder to set-up than with an access point.
I've seen people using Belkin 54g stuff with GNU/Linux, but no idea if it was easy or hard. But the wireless people are pretty good at documenting what works with what.
I think there is also a project to standardise the wireless support in the Linux kernel, so you might check which driver model they have standardised on (I think the NG stuff "won") and ensure your chosen cards are supported on that - as that will almost certainly ensure it becomes/stays just plug-in the hardware and go, on future distro's, bootable CDs etc. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Using GnuPG with Debian - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
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