Set up a wireless network in the new house
As you read in my previous post , we arrived in UK already. I have internet connection at work, but I need also at home internet, because during the evening I am reading news, emails, messenger, …. I prefer now, to set up a wirelesss network for my home, because I don’t like to have cables in the house.
My computers are here. For Amilo notebook I had already a PCMCIA card “Netgear WG511T” which is working fine on Windows XP, FreeBSD and Linux, Vaio notebook come with an integrated wifi card, I have installed on it Vista and I don’t have problems with the wireless card, so what I needed it was a PCI/USB wireless card for the desktop computer which has to work with Linux, Windows and also *BSD operating system and also a wireless router.
Surfing on the internet, reading opinions and different forums, I decided to buy a Linksys WRT54G wireless broadband router, maybe in the future I will try to install linux on it (openwrt or something similar), and as PCI card I took Edimax EW-7128G wireless adapter which it seems that is working fine with Linux, Windows and FreeBSD/OpenBSD.
The router was very easy to set up and is working fine. I had some problems in installing the PCI wireless card on my Opensuse 10.3 box, finally it is working, I will write here a short tutorial in the next post.
I am really happy with my new wireless network.
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Stacey Derbinshire
Maybe a better choice was to get an WRT54GL, it is running linux and you can install on it you own linux system…
@claudiuc yes, you are right but was a bit late when I realized that 
. Anyway, I understood that I can install also on my router model a mini openwrt distro. I still didn’t try, but maybe in the future.
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