Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 11:45:40 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: affordable wireless Message-ID: <v04220800b5da703bc3b5@[10.0.1.2]> In-Reply-To: <14772.16607.870040.12214@kci.kciLink.com> References: <LMEMIKHGPPEEMMMMGIENMEKJCAAA.manek@ecst.csuchico.edu> <14772.16607.870040.12214@kci.kciLink.com>
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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). I do have some problems with the AirPort getting wonky and the Mac software at the same time. Usually rebooting the AirPort does the trick, but sometimes I have to reboot them both. I'm hoping that when I switch to using the AirPort as a wireless bridge to my Ethernet/ISDN router, I won't have these kinds of problems any more. Other than that, everything else works like a charm. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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