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Date:  Mon, 16 Aug 2004 10:27:39 +0200 (CEST)
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From:  "mg" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
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Subject: [OS2Wireless] wifi on desktop?

On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 17:00:46 -0400, Julian Thomas wrote:

|In <20040815192117.E9B881C6A13@postfix4-2.free.fr>, on 08/15/04=20
|   at 09:21 PM, "Maurice Gu=E9ron" <mg@pmc.polytechnique.fr> typed:
|
|>I would like to go wifi all the way. For the Thinkpad, I 'm getting a
|>PCMCIA card,  and hope to drive it with the IBM drivers downloaded from
|>the eComStation site.  But what about the desktop? Does someone have a
|>desktop running wifi using a  PCI card (Linksys for example)? With what
|>driver?
|
|I'm sure it can be done, and the os2.be site probably lists some cards
|that are known to work, but is there really any good reason to do this?
|
|Only if the desktop moves around frequently, or the WAP (or router) need=
s
|to be located in a different location from the desktop can I see a reaso=
n
|to do this.  Almost all wifi routers include some wired ports also.
|=20
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| Julian Thomas:   jt@jt-mj.net    http://jt-mj.net

Julian,=20
-If it's that easy, what reason is there NOT to do it?
-My reason to do it: avoid cables going from the DSL box (which has to be=
 close to the TV) to the computer den.
-IMHO os2.be is not clear on either PCI cards or drivers for them
I'm afraid this is going to turn out to be a case where os/2 /eCS does no=
t make the grade.


Maurice Gu=E9ron, BIOP/PMC, Ecole polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau, France
phone: 33/0:169 334 174; fax: 33/0:169 333 004
e-mail: mg@pmc.polytechnique.fr
In case of problems only, use: gueron@idf.ext.jussieu.fr


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