Wireless LAN question.

[Loren Cahlander]

I have a blue mac ppc 300 Mhz system. I am planning on using it as my
firewall to a wireless connection for my notebook. What I am wondering
is, if anyone out there has done this.

Can linux ppc 2000 talk to both the onboard ethernet connection as well
as to a:

- Compaq WL200 11 Mb/s Wireless LAN PCI card

or a

- Lucent Orinoco PC Card in the
- Lucent Orinoco PCI Adapter?

If it is possible, which card and how would I do it?

Thanks,
Loren

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[David Martin]

Loren Cahlander wrote:

The Linux TCP/IP stack can handle routing/bridging/firewall between the
two interfaces without problems - the IP chains function in the 2.2 series
kernels can do packet filtering and IP masquarading and port forwarding
without too much trouble.

Both the 64 and 128 bit versions of the Lucent Orinoco (nee Wavelan) will
work with Linux - there is an GPL driver that works well under x86 (Lucent
also provide a binary only driver for x86 Linux - not that that is much
use here), and at least one guy on this group has reported to have gotten
working under PPC Linux. Linux has an excellent PCMCIA package, but you
will need to check whether the bridge chipset in the Lucent PCI adaptor is
supported and whether the driver has been ported or tested for the PPC.

If it is all supported, then you would use the PCMCIA package to run the
PCI adaptor card and then the Wavelan driver for the card. The wireless
interface appears as an ethernet interface and is competely transparent as
far as the TCP/IP stack is concerned.

The wavelan driver homepage is at:
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Wavelan-IEEE.html

Take a look at Paul Lucas' page on using a wavelan on Powerbooks with PPC
linux at:
http://www.best.com/~pjl/personal/powerbook/wireless.html

and the Linux PCMCIA pages have good information and mailing lists at:
http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net

I don't know all that much about the Compaq card, but I have not heard any
reports of a Linux driver for it.

I hope this is of some use to you.

[Loren Cahlander]

Thanks for the info. I will go ahead and purchase the Orinoco cards
today.

Loren