Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 01:32:30 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Joe Clarke" <marcus@marcuscom.com>, "Nathan Vidican" <nathan@vidican.com> Cc: <mobile@FreeBSD.ORG>, "FreeBSD Questions" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: OT: need to buy 802.11 hardware; do the Cisco Aironet deviceswork w/ FreeBSD? Message-ID: <003701c0fc88$35690240$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20010622144752.I92142-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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The only problem with the Cisco cards is that if they overheat (we are talking 120 degrees here) they get fried - permanently. And it doesen't take that much heat to fry them. This is not a problem if the antenna is not very high, but it is a real problem with 200 foot masts because you want to run Ethernet up the mast along with power, and put the transmitter at the top in a weatherproof box. (otherwise you kill your signal gain if you put the transmitter down below) When the afternoon sun hits that box you better have good reflection and cooling because if you don't - bye bye Aironet. We've had customers fry the bridge units by leaving them in the office window for days at a time and the hot sun comes in and heats the box up to 120 degrees or so for a few hours and a week later the unit's fried. Or more specifically, the PCMCIA card buried in the unit is fried, the rest of the bridge electronics is fine. In fact we've discovered you can take the Aironet cards that are sold for laptop use and take apart the bridge and replace the pcmcia card in it with a laptop one, despite the fact that the numbers on the cards are different, and the bridge will reprogram the laptop PCMCIA card. Saves an expensive Cisco factory repair. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Joe Clarke >Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 11:50 AM >To: Nathan Vidican >Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG; FreeBSD Questions >Subject: Re: OT: need to buy 802.11 hardware; do the Cisco Aironet >deviceswork w/ FreeBSD? > > >I have heard some really good things about the Aironet support that is >currently in FreeBSD, and the stuff to come. I work for Cisco, and know >that a few engineers internally are working on improving Aironet >dunctionality. I own a AP 340 with two PCMCIA cards, but only use them >under Windows :-(. > >As for a reseller, I'm not sure. You could always buy from Cisco direct. > >Joe Clarke > >On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Nathan Vidican wrote: > >> Does anyone know of a reseller, (pref Canadian), for Teletronics' 802.11 >> wavelan products? I have used them before, and know that they work quite >> well with FreeBSD. I can find Lucent wavelan product all over >the place; but >> the Teletronics cards have a built-in connector for coax-> antenna. They >> will be used for a wireless internet service, any other suggestions >> welcomed. Looking for a card that is well supported under FreeBSD, and of >> course as inexpensive as possible. >> What about the Cisco Aironet cards; are they supported at all? >> >> >> Nathan Vidican >> Nathan@Vidican.com >> http://Nathan.Vidican.com/ >> >> >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> >> > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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