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From: Stefan Monnier on 13 Jan 2008 17:10
>> I have a Linux computer that sits in my living room and speaks over a
>> wireless network with WPA using wpa_supplicant. That works fine. This
>> computer also has an ethernet card in it. I'd like to connect another
>> device into that ethernet with a crossover cable and let that other
>> device use DHCP to get an address from my DHCP server (which is on the
>> other side of the wireless network). Do I set that ethernet card up as a
>> bridge? If so, how?

> O do it at home with bridge-utils and a Madwifi powered wireless
> device...

Where can I find such hardware?

I've seen sites that try to record which card uses which (set of)
chipsets as well as data about which drivers to use for which chipset,
but I wish someone tried to compile this info into an actual set of
recommendations. E.g. for each type of hardware (mini-pci, PCI, USB,
pcmcia, ...) it could start by listing the linux drivers by order of
quality, then for each one, list the devices that are known to *always*
use this chipset, then the devices that sometimes use it (listing which
revisions and whether they're likely to be found in *new* hardware), ...


Stefan
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