From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Jul 10 6:59:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (mb-20-100.mitre.org [129.83.20.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1C9337B401 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 06:59:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jandrese@mitre.org) Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6ADvrD02598; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:57:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from MAILHUB1 (mailhub1.mitre.org [129.83.20.31]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6ADvqX01806; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:57:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dhcp-105-164.mitre.org (128.29.105.164) by mailhub1.mitre.org with SMTP id 6999048; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:57:46 -0400 Message-ID: <3B4B09DF.23F87787@mitre.org> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:57:51 -0400 From: Jason Andresen Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en]C-20000818M (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Thornton Cc: Nick Sayer , nexus@fileseeker.net, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wireless base stations References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Paul Thornton wrote: > > 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 Although it isn't supported either, Windows users can use a client called Freebase. http://freebase.sourceforge.net/ Really, if you don't need a 56k modem, a DHCP server, or NAT on the basestation you don't really need an Airport. There are several other (cheaper!) alternatives mentioned earlier in this article. -- \ |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| Jason Andresen jandrese@mitre.org |\/ | | | / _| Network and Distributed Systems Engineer _| _|___| _| _|_\___| Office: 703-883-7755 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message