[KLUG Members] Wireless

[Bryan-TheBS-Smith]

Bruce Smith wrote:
> More reasons I'm going to avoid Linksys products:
>   <... cut ...>
> Did I mention that I emailed their tech support last weekend
> asking them about the bridging issue?  No reply yet.  Impressive
> ... NOT!

Well, in Linksys' defense, look at their ASP (average selling
price).

What you need is a vendor that caters to Linux users.  Right now at
AVS, we sell just a development kit.  But we are working on an AP
based on our flexible/powerful DevKit, and it will give you
craploads of options.  Unfortunately, it won't be cheap.

We're also working on releasing mini-PCI, PCI and PCMCIA cards that
come with ready-to-go kernel modules for major distros and
releases.  Wireless LAN requires some intricate kernel changes so
it's not just a driver/module compile.  But our cards won't be too
expensive, and not far outside of Linksys' pricing either.

-- TheBS

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Bryan "TheBS" Smith   mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org    chat:thebs413
Engineer  AbsoluteValue Systems, Inc.  http://www.linux-wlan.org
President    SmithConcepts, Inc.    http://www.SmithConcepts.com