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:Author: 		Tobias Schlitt
:Date:			Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100
:Revision: 		1
:Copyright:		CC by-nc-sa


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The flavor of freedom II ...
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:Description:
    After having heard that there are no wifi crads available for rent at the
    International PHP Conference in Amsterdam, I decided to do what I ever
    wanted to do: I bought a card for WLAN. And as stood in front of the shelf
    in the store, I realized, that if I want to test the wireless freedom, I'd
    have to buy a WLAN router, too. And so it went...

After having heard that there are no wifi crads available for rent at the
`International PHP Conference`__ in Amsterdam, I decided to do what I ever
wanted to do: I bought a card for WLAN. And as stood in front of the shelf in
the store, I realized, that if I want to test the wireless freedom, I'd have
to buy a WLAN router, too. And so it went...

Before going to buy a card, I searched the web for a Linux compatible product.
The `Netgear WG511`__ was the choice. As it has a `Prism54`__ chipset, the
driver is available as open source. Beside that, it fulfills the 802.11g
standard, which allows comfortable 54MBit bandwidth.

After upgrading my laptop from `Kernel`__ 2.4 to 2.6 (which I wanted to have
done all the time, too), I just inserted the card into it's PCMCIA (or now
it's named PCCard, IIRC). Nothing really happened, but the HD started to run
and the busy LED flashed. Calling "lspci" on the console showed me: The card
was already knowen and active. 

A little download of the firmware put into the firmware dir. "ifconfig eth1
up" and "iwconfig" to configure some options. And everything was done. Ok,
beside setting up the router (which is cool, because it can be used as a
normal access point, too) over it's web interface.

Pretty easy and pretty cool! :)

.. __: http://www.php-conference.com

.. __: http://www.netgear.com

.. __: http://www.prism54.org

.. __: http://www.kernel.org


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