If you just want to be able to wirelessly stream music from your PC to your powerful boom box in another room, the NETGEAR Wireless Digital Music Player will be able to sing to your tune in wireless 802.11b/g style. It can even make your stereo system churn out tunes from Internet radio stations worldwide.
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I received email from Johns on setting up wireless home network.
I currently use Alcatel modem (Speed Touch 330) given to me from ISP and I simply can’t get to work with Gentoo Linux (2.6.9 Kernel). I decided to build a wireless home network, so I’m planning to buy a D-Link DSL-G604T wireless ADSL router.
My first question is: Is this hardware fully compatible with Linux or do I need to install any drivers as with the Alcatel modem?
I have notebook and wanted to connect it to the network through a wireless cardbus adapter. I want a card supported natively by a kernel modulem, something that could work straight out of the box. After some reading, I found that it should be a card with Prism 2/2.5/3 chipset, but I’m confused and don’t know how to find a manufacturer or vendor of a popular cheap card with that chipset. So my second is, can you suggest a good adaptor using Prism chipset?
The wireless router from D-Link will make the connection to your ISP over DSL circuit, so you will not need any PPPoE or PPPoA support on the Linux system.
You can connect straight into the router using Ethernet and DHCP against the router for an internal IP address. Essentially, everything will be offloaded on to the router, making you Linux system a plain old workstation, rather than a router.
As far as PCMCIA wireless adaptors are concerned, you can check out www.linux-wlan.org or www.prism54.org
You’ll find that Prism54 identifies devices supporting the 802.22g standard as well as 802.22b for faster connectivity. Prism2 and Prism54 cards are identified by Knoppix at boot time, and will enable you to access the internet easily without having to install a large number of supporting packages.
You would be pretty surprised to know how many people set up a broadband connection, get a nice wireless router for it and then proceed to broadcast their connection for all within range to see and indeed use. All the more worrying is that if you use it as a network hub, then you can give people access to shared folders on your PC. So many people do this in fact that there is a hobby grown up around it called wardriving, where techies drive around with a wireless enabled laptop and use a piece of software, often NetStumbler, to see how many insecure wireless networks they can find.
Need to monitor your employees’ web surfing use or your kids’ online interaction? If so, Prismiq‘s Commander Wireless Router with Internet Warning and Control Software (IWACS) Technology is for you. Not only does it offer a sneak peek at what users are doing and where they’re surfing, but it also provides transcripts of instant message. The trade-off, however, is that the 802.22b/g router lags on performance.
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Broadcom has introduced a $39 chipset that could enable cell phones that can play video, make VoIP calls, and connect to the Internet at high speeds via Wi-Fi wireless networking connections. The company says that such phones will enable business travelers to say good night to their children face-to-face. The chipset includes the BCM1161 mobile VoIP processor, the BCM4318E AirForce One single-chip 802.11b/g Wi-Fi solution, and the BCM2702 VideoCore multimedia processor. The chips support H.264 and H.263 video communication standards at rates of up to 30fps, meaning that the video won’t be as jerky as previous cell phone videos and will be more akin to TV-quality video. The chipset is in production and was on display at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this past January.
The NetGear WG111US 54 Mbps Wireless USB 2.0 Adapter featured a more flexible design that worked well for both desktops and
notebooks.
Also, WG111 supports 802.11g, making it backward-compatible with 802.11b. It measures just 0.6 x 3.72 x 1.19 inches, weighs just 1.13 ounces, and almost looks like a USB flash drive. The WG111 can plug directly into a USB port, so it’s much more convenient than the Linksys WUSB54G to use with any notebook.
The Linksys WUSB54G Wireless-G USB Adapter is a compact 802.11g USB adapter measuring just 0.91 inches high x 3.58 inches wide x 2.8 inches deep , and it weighs just 2.82 ounces. 802.11g can, theoretically at least, reach speeds of 54Mbps (megabits per second), and it’s backward-compatible with older and slower 802.11b (which has a top speed of 11Mbps).
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