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Date:      Tue, 26 Sep 2000 22:06:41 -0700
From:      Eric Kozowski <eric@svjava.com>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc:        Chris Coleman <ccoleman@oreilly.com>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Card Recommendations
Message-ID:  <20000926220641.B26212@schooner.svjava.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000926204237.A7150@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>; from brooks@one-eyed-alien.net on Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 08:42:37PM -0700
References:  <39D122D1.5C384A20@oreilly.com> <20000926204237.A7150@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>

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On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 08:42:37PM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote:
> You'll also want to consider access points.  I've used the Lucent ones a
> little and I have 5 Cisco ones at work.  I really didn't like the Lucent
> ones though they do have some nice features.  Their configuration
> sucked.  The Cisco ones have a serial interface I haven't used and a
> pretty nice web interface.  Cisco also makes a home version of their
> access point which is cheaper.  I don't know much about it though I
> think I know someone who has one.  It compets directly with the Apple
> Airport.  The airport is supposed to be good, but could use the Apple
> config program.  Maybe someone could get the OS X people to build a
> FreeBSD binary. ;-)

i have an apple airport and it works great.  there's a java based config
tool that is excellent.  i replaced the silver card with a gold card and
added an external antenna (had to cut the case up a bit to get the cable 
out).  i bought it for $240 off ebay.  they're $300 new.



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