Using a wireless PCI card in B&W G3 w/ YDL?

[nathan r. rhuby]

Tony K. wrote:
> How much success any of you have had with running a wireless PCI card on
> a G3 tower running YDL?  What brands of wireless PCI cards have you
> used?  Does it make a difference which?  How difficult is the setup?
> 
> I would rather not spend $299 on an Airport.  I picked up a $140 D-Link
> Wireless Access Point to add to my home LAN and have been disappointed
> with trying to gain access to the settings via html.  I have not even
> been able to set the password.  I may end up returning it to the store I
> bought it from if I don't get anywhere with D-Link support.  An
> alternative would be to install a wireless PCI card in my G3 running
> YDL.
> 
> Note: I have one of the earliest B&W G3's and I believe it is missing
> the hardware interface for an Airport Card.  Perhaps I can salvage one
> from another G3 or G4?
>

AFIK, there aren't any PCI WiFi cards in the world.  The one that go 
into PCI slots are just PCMCIA-to-PCI bridges.  There are also USB 
adapters well that work with linux.  I have heard ok thing about the 
Linksys ones.

FWIW, I have a Linksys BEFW11S4 version 1 at home, and it works 
flawlessly with AirPort, I do have to reboot it about once a week as the 
prolific port scans seem to mess with it, but the latest firmware 
upgrades have improved upon that a bit. It is a Web Interface, however, 
I use it with IE on MacOSX, Win98 and mozilla 0.98, 1.0 and 1.1 and it 
works quite well.  My only major gripe about it is the WAN port is 
10MBit/sec only, while my cable modem will do up 100Mbit/sec which is a 
quite noticable difference (you wouldn't think it, but it is)

The unit is about $200 bucks, but the WAP11 (the AP-only version) is 
about $100.

-n
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