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Date:      Sat, 23 Feb 2002 05:17:01 -0500
From:      Pete Fritchman <petef@databits.net>
To:        Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Cc:        John Reynolds <johnjen@reynoldsnet.org>, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re:  recommendation not to purchase DWL-1000AP
Message-ID:  <20020223051701.B42166@databits.net>
In-Reply-To: <1014458041.21745.4.camel@chowder.dons.net.au>; from doconnor@gsoft.com.au on Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 09:23:59PM %2B1130
References:  <15479.20563.424313.788279@whale.home-net> <20020223040048.A42166@databits.net> <1014458041.21745.4.camel@chowder.dons.net.au>

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++ 23/02/02 21:23 +1130 - Daniel O'Connor:
| On Sat, 2002-02-23 at 20:30, Pete Fritchman wrote:
| > |  1) you have a Windoze machine handy to configure the AP
| > 
| > If you can manage to get the new firmware onto the AP, you can use
| > web-based configuration (but you'll need a windows machine to do
| > that...)
| 
| No you don't.. The firmware upgrade for the AP is done using tftp.

Well, their website says to use their program... do you have details on
using tftp with the AP?

| You can configure it under FreeBSD using SNMP, and there is a project on
| sourceforge which can send magic packets to configure it without an IP.

Ah, cool:  sourceforge.net/projects/dwl-1000ap-conf/ 

--pete

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