[olug] What year did you do this: "embedded Linux wireless router"

[Rob Townley]

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Matthew G. Marsh
<olug4mgm at paktronix.com> wrote:
>
> Paul Greunke - who some of you may remember as my alter ego at Paktronix
> back in the 90s and early 00s sent me the quoted email below. Check out the
> link first. I will be lending my support to this as I did have wireless
> support in PakSecured back in 1998.
>
> ---inc---
>
> LinuxWorld 1998 - Tom Davis took us to Frys and we purchased the Wavelan
> cards which I still have. So we had it running in spring or summer of 1998.
> Wavelan predated 802.11b they were not even real 802.11 anything - mostly
> proprietary. about 1 meg a second as I recall but we only ever got a few
> hundred kb - still amazing to sit on the porch and connect.
>
> Sad but true that the world is becoming a patent troll paradise...
>
> On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, Paul Greunke wrote:
>
>> Who invented the embedded Linux based wireless router?
>>
>
> http://the-edge.blogspot.com/2010/10/who-invented-embedded-linux-based.html
>
>>
>> Original author of "Arlan Wireless Howto" deposed because of patent
>> #7035281, filed September 13, 2000.
>>
>> Wan't this a feature of PakSecured Linux prior to 9/13/2000??? Just
>> thinking about those 11b cards we had.
>
> ---end---
>
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WaveLan advertised connecting over several miles back then, how far
away could you be?