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[ewx]

Can anyone recommend an 802.11g capable wireless access point? (I'm currently using a PCI card for this purpose but am getting tired of driver doom.) The only wireless device it'd routinely serve is my iBook but visitors might be expected to bring their laptops occasioanlly.

Relatedly, can someone explain what level these devices operate on? I get the impression from manuals and googling that they are layer 2 devices and act like a repeater or bridge between a wired ethernet LAN and a wireless LAN, but could do with confirmation from someone more knowledgeable.

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We have that (the 3Com one) and it seems fine apart from the occasional problem of PCMCIA cards apparently losing the signal even though the access point is about two metres away in direct line of sight.

The setup documentation rather assumes Windows, but if you have a DHCP server on your network then it will take an address from that, and hence you'll know what IP to connect to in order to get the web management interface (which for some reason requires JavaScript).