| gabriel rosenkoetter on Mon, 18 Nov 2002 13:22:33 -0500 |
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On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 06:58:47AM -0500, Louis Dallara wrote: > Quick question, I might switch to the Orinoco card, what's the difference > between the silver and gold, Silver will only do 64-bit WEP, gold will do 128-bit WEP. But since WEP is intrinsically flawed anyway and you'll have to run IPSec to actually get any security, who cares? > do they both have external antenna provision ? I thought not, but there seems to be a little unscrewable nubbin in the end of my card, so perhaps it's possible to attach an antenna. In any case, the reason to get a WaveLAN-based card over a Prism2 or a Hermes is that the range and signal quality is *much* better. > BTW MD 9.0 finds and configures a wifi card, not sure if its the right one, > might be the chip set problem > Helms vs prism? You mean Hermes, not Helms, right? (I can't help you much with Linux driver-specific; I don't use wifi on Linux, only on NetBSD.) -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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