[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“For the harassed, overworked network admin, connecting new
clients without having to run additional cabling is so much fun it
feels wrong. Miles of pretty color-coded cables and tags are
aesthetically pleasing and useful, of course, and who hasn’t
experienced the satisfaction of crimping connectors? There’s
nothing like the authoritative SNICK of a perfect crimp. (For some
of us deskbound-geeks, grip strength is all we have.)“But rasslin’ bales of CAT5 cables is like, so last millennium.
Hopelessly old-fashioned. Square, even. And wireless Ethernet is no
longer new-fangled: it’s affordable and works just fine. Today
let’s take a look at which brands and devices work on Linux; next
week we’ll dig into the deep, mysterious world of chipsets,
configurations, and troubleshooting…”