Linux WI-FI

I want to use an old Celeron PC I have to be a Linux server for my home
network. I also want to be able to connect an external hard drive through a
USB port . I also want to be able to access the PC over the internet. The
hard drive uses NTFS file system.

What wireless adaptors will work with Linux?

Also, what version of Lines should I use?


Any suggestions will be appreciated.

"news" <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:

>I want to use an old Celeron PC I have to be a Linux server for my home
>network. I also want to be able to connect an external hard drive through a
>USB port . I also want to be able to access the PC over the internet. The
>hard drive uses NTFS file system.
They the hard drive will be pretty useless for Linux-- it cannot write NTFS
( or rather it can but could well destroy the disk in the process-- writing
is not yet a supported feature). If you want the computer to run Linux,
use a filesystem that Linux can use. ext3, reiser, even vfat if it must be
shared with windows.

If the system is on the network, there is no reason to plug in the
harddrive unless you have really massive amounts of data you want to
transfer. You can just access the drive across the network. Esp if that is
a Windows drive, it would be better to access it while on a Windows machine
so that you could both read and write to it.




>What wireless adaptors will work with Linux?
What has this to do with the above paragraph?
Do you want it to be wireless network ? (Make sure that you do not have
sensitive data on your system-- wirelss is still in a rather insecure
state).

>Also, what version of Lines should I use?

Linux? You have not told us what the machine is supposed to do. Is it
really a server-- ie its only purpose is to contain hard drives and deliver
data to other computers? Is it also a desktop machine ( ie you or others
will log into it, either at the keyboard or over the network)? etc.

"news" <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:

> I want to use an old Celeron PC I have to be a Linux server for my home
> network. I also want to be able to connect an external hard drive through a
> USB port . I also want to be able to access the PC over the internet. The
> hard drive uses NTFS file system.
>
> What wireless adaptors will work with Linux?
>
> Also, what version of Lines should I use?
>
> Any suggestions will be appreciated.

I use a pair of Asus WL-330g adaptors, one in access point mode, and one in
ethernet mode. Since it converts wireless to ethernet, I don't have to worry
about any adaptors on my local system. I did do the initial configuration
under Windows, but once configured, you don't have to tinker with it again. If
you search back through the comp.os.linux.* groups, somebody responded to an
earlier post I made, and said there is a way to configure it directly under
Linux.

As other people have said, the NTFS file system will be a problem, since Linux
doesn't reliably handle writes to NTFS. If you need to have a drive shared
between Linux and Windows, it is best to use the FAT32 filesystem.

--
Michael Meissner
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http://www.the-meissners.org