A friend of mine has the linksys WAP. Believe he found a hack that allowed him to increase the power output on the base unit. He had similar issue getting a good signal through a concrete brick wall out to the patio. After the hack he had no problems. Do a google search on it. There appear to be a number of things you can try. On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 11:36, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > At 7/17/2003 07:44 -0700, you wrote: > >Anyway, I now want to get a different card one that is WIDELY used and > >supported in RH. I was wondering specifically about the Orinoco Gold card and > >if people thought it was easy to setup or if it was supported out of the box. > >More broadly what wireless cards are people on this list using, could you give > >me a hint at how easy setup was and how happy you are with the card? > > I have only used Orinoco Gold and Silver cards and both were great. Psyche > and Shrike both contain the drivers to handle them built-in. My new > Thinkpad notebook had WiFi built-in, using an Intersil Prism chipset. That > one is not supported "automagically" by RH but is handled superbly well by > the linux-wlan-ng project which provides RPM packages. More work, but the > results are just as satisfactory. > > What _I'd_ like to find is a good Access Point with some more power... mine > has trouble reaching parts of the house due to the concrete and steel > construction. Currently using a Linksys WAP11 and happy, but need more power. > > > -- > Rodolfo J. Paiz rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Scot L. Harris <webid@xxxxxxxxxx> -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
