Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 13:05:51 -0500 From: Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Wavelan base stations (Re: Aviator 2.4) Message-ID: <20001128130551.B4237@pir.net> In-Reply-To: <200011280746.eAS7klc01290@zorba.sf-bay.org>; from scott@zorch.sf-bay.org on Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 11:46:47PM -0800 References: <200011280746.eAS7klc01290@zorba.sf-bay.org>
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Scott Hazen Mueller <scott@zorch.sf-bay.org> probably said: > I have now, and can't make them go under Win98 either. I think one > or both of the radios is toast. I think it's time to give up on > these and go ask Santa for a Lucent gateway kit for xmas... My, very strong, advice is; don't touch the lucent residential gateway with a bargepole. It's the same guts as an apple airport, but with partly broken firmware and crippled configuration software. The firmware on the lucent gateway forces the first 6 characters of the network name to seemingly random hex digits (not related to the mac address or the id of the unit) and the software won't let you use 90% of the unit's features and won't even let you change the SNMP community string. The Apple Airport has a free configurator (that does also work with the lucent gateway, apart the broken network name problem), doesn't have broken firmware, the extra features of the unit (mac address filtering, etc) are supported by apple and it's even normally cheaper. It looks cooler, too :) I've played with both pretty extensively and survey says; buy an airport. P. -- pir pir@pir.net pir@net.tufts.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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