Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 17:40:44 -0700 From: Greg Rumple <grumple@zaphon.llamas.net> To: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> Cc: Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: affordable wireless Message-ID: <20000905174044.C15222@zaphon.llamas.net> In-Reply-To: <v04220800b5da703bc3b5@[10.0.1.2]>; from blk@skynet.be on Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 11:45:40AM %2B0200 References: <LMEMIKHGPPEEMMMMGIENMEKJCAAA.manek@ecst.csuchico.edu> <14772.16607.870040.12214@kci.kciLink.com> <v04220800b5da703bc3b5@[10.0.1.2]>
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* Brad Knowles (blk@skynet.be) [000905 10:02]: > At 8:39 PM -0400 2000/9/4, Vivek Khera wrote: > > > The AirPort base station contians within it a "silver" wavelan PCMCIA > > card. The regular wavelan cards you buy work well with it. > > I'm using this solution myself. In fact, I replaced the WaveLAN > card in the AirPort with a WaveLAN Gold (so that I can do 128-bit > encryption), and kept the WaveLAN Silver as backup. > > > I happen to have a Mac around to configure it, but I understand that > > the Karlbridge software for Windoze will configure it as well (except > > for some features such as the modem dialout). > > I downloaded the Karlbridge software and installed it on my > wife's PC laptop, and tried to use it to configure the AirPort. I > could not get this to work properly, so for the moment we're actually > running without encryption (the Karlbridge software is supposedly > able to allow you to change how the password is stored, because Apple > uses a hash of the password on the AirPort and in the Mac client, but > everyone else in the world uses the raw password itself). Use the java based configurator on this web site to configure it with. I have used this tool under FreeBSD just fine. http://edge.mcs.drexel.edu/GICL/people/sevy/airport/ I think I am using the linux-jdk for it, but it works none the less, and allows you to configure your base station from any OS. I have my basestation in bridging mode, and have yet to have a single problem with it (it's got an uptime of about 70 days right now). Greg -- Greg Rumple grumple@zaphon.llamas.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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