I’ve added a BLUE Wireless LAN zone to my IPCop and feel much more secure than
having a WLAN in the GREEN (i.e. protected) zone. A Compex WLM54G with an
Atheron chipset, together with an antenna did it. The hardest part was getting
the teeny tiny little antenna cable connected to the WLAN card: my eye sight
isn’t what it used to be, and my fat fingers don’t help either… The Compex
WLM54G is a Mini PCI card (and believe me: I now know why they’re called
mini) After drilling a hole in the ALIX’ enclosure to
pass the antenna cable out of it, the hardware bit was complete. Getting the
software running was easy as well. This document describes the procedure
in great detail, so I won’t go into that specifically, except to mention that
the
./install
oops‘ed on me; I aborted the script after a minute or two
and simply carried on. It works anyway.