Is it possible to set Wireless router to work as plain wireless network card? I have Linux on one PC, and it doesn't recognize my WLAN card. I would like to connect that Linux PC with UTP cable to one router and make that router work as wireless NIC. I tried WDS but it eats too much bandwidth.
Not many WLAN cards are recognized by stock Linux distributions, but some are supported by downloadable drivers. I have recently liked various vendors' cards with Atheros chipsets on Redhat distributions.
What card do you have? Does it show up in lspci?
If you have a working wired NIC, you should be able to plug it into a Game Adapter.
Other than that, some routers have a client mode, but not many.
I have Canyon CN-WF511 card. It shows up as Ralink RT2561/RT61 card and uses RT61 driver by default (Xandros 4.0 Linux, based on Debian). It can find my network SSID but when I try to connect I get "Unable to determine interface to use" message. I'll try to install Xandros 4.1 these days.
I tried to make it work with ndiswrapper but with no luck, because drivers don't have .inf file.
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