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Linux Unwired
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Linux Unwired

by Roger Weeks, Edd Wilder-James, Brian Jepson
April 2004
Beginner content levelBeginner
314 pages
8h 27m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Preface

Take a trip to the computer store, buy a Wi-Fi card, and insert it into your Linux notebook. You will probably hear two beeps; are they both happy beeps, or is one of them an angry beep? It’s possible that you will receive a happy beep, but with the variety of hardware, firmware, and software drivers for Wi-Fi cards, it’s quite likely that you will receive the angry beep. Next, go through this exercise with a Bluetooth adapter, cell phone, and some other random wireless hardware.

This book is all about hearing the happy beeps.

Wireless networks are popping up everywhere; from Wi-Fi hotspots to cellular data plans, you can connect to the Internet virtually anywhere. You can even cut more cables with technologies like Bluetooth and Infrared. Linux is already an amazing operating system, and combined with wireless, its strengths are amplified.

But things really shine when you combine wireless technologies. This book also discusses using wireless technology in combination, whether you want to share your Wi-Fi connection to Bluetooth devices or map out Wi-Fi networks with a Global Positioning System (GPS) device.

What This Book Covers

This book explains how to use the following wireless technologies with Linux:

Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi)

Wi-Fi is short-range wireless networking that supports raw speeds up to 54 Mbps (about 20-25 Mbps actual speeds). It’s an affordable replacement for wired Ethernet, and includes the 802.11b, 802.11g, and 802.11a protocols. Chapter 1 through Chapter 6 ...

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