[NTLUG:Discuss] A Laptop

[kbrannen@gte.net]

Probably depends on your setup.  With everything set to factory defaults, I 
just plugged the card in and it auto-magically worked without me doing a thing 
(note, I already had networking working with a 3Com PCMCIA card and wire, so 
when I pulled that out and put in the WaveLAN, all I had to worry about was 
the wireless).  This is with Suse 7.[01] installs, but I don't think RH 7.x 
would be much different.

OTOH, we recently found some guy from another company downstairs jumping onto 
our network via the wireless receivers to run Morpheus/KaZaa.  We'd planned on 
doing something to prevent that but just hadn't gotten around to it.  Once we 
found him doing that, it really bumped up that security task's priority. :-) 
We reported him to his manager then changed all the receivers to require a 
domain name, and also gave it all the MAC addresses from our machines.  Since 
we've done that, I have yet to make the WaveLAN work under Linux; but then I 
haven't tried very hard either.  I think I need to change 
/etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts to have the domain name (or so a HowTo told me), but 
I have yet to make it work; and as I'm about to leave the company, I may not 
bother trying.  After all, I'm the network admin, so I have all the network 
ports I need already with that nice switch on my desk. :-)

Kevin


Bug Hunter wrote:

>   How hard was it to get the wavelan modems working on redhat?  was this a
> new install or an add-on to an old install.   I've found little
> intelligble documentation.
> 
> 
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 kbrannen at gte.net wrote:

>>I've used Dell 7500's at work that have done very well.  Video seems to need 
>>to be 1280x1024, though depth can be 8, 16, or 24.  We use the 3Com PCMCIA 
>>cards, and the Lucent WaveLAN wireless cards without problems.  

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