From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Jul 10 6:44:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from avalon.whirlygig.co.uk (avalon.whirlygig.co.uk [195.152.5.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00B8237B401 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 06:44:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from prt@prt.org) Received: from prt (helo=localhost) by avalon.whirlygig.co.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 15JxoR-000AOz-00; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 14:44:27 +0100 Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 14:44:26 +0100 (BST) From: Paul Thornton X-Sender: prt@avalon.whirlygig.co.uk To: Nick Sayer Cc: nexus@fileseeker.net, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wireless base stations In-Reply-To: <1799.206.112.124.107.994772043.squirrel@medusa.kfu.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Nick Sayer wrote: > The AirPort should really have been on the original list of options. So far > as I am aware, however, it is an expensive choice -- they still sell at > Fry's for $299, last I checked. Also, configuring them is only supported > with MacOS tools (note that as usual, "supported" != "possible" -- see the > net/airport port). There are various free config tools available. I used the generic linux Orinoco one on a FBSD-4.2 system a week or so back to configure the AirPort and it has worked fine ever since - its similar enough to the Lucent APs for this to work. The cli config app is available at: http://www.orinocowireless.com/template.html?section=m52&envelope=90&page=2763 -- Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message