Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 09:12:01 -0700 From: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: affordable wireless Message-ID: <200009051612.JAA25260@mina.soco.agilent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 03 Sep 2000 20:07:38 PDT." <LMEMIKHGPPEEMMMMGIENMEKJCAAA.manek@ecst.csuchico.edu>
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"Sameer R. Manek" <manek@ecst.csuchico.edu> wrote:
> Does anyone have any suggestions on how to have 802.11 wireless for home
> users? Naturally it should be supported by FreeBSD. Configuruation can be
> done on any pc os though.
>
> My only affordable solution so far is to use the Apple AirPort base station,
> and wavelan pcmcia cards, but I don't know if they can co-exist, and the
> AirPort needs a Macintosh to configure. My idea of affordable for this is
> less then $500, the lucent wavelan solution works out to about $900 startup,
> that's a little out of my budget.
Just to let everyone know: I should be getting a TechWorks
(Buffalo) AirStation in the next couple of days, and I'll be adding it
to my FreeBSD Wireless documentation. A co-worker got one, and we
played with it briefly; it doesn't look too bad. It's an actual base
station (does not work in ad-hoc mode). I don't know if it supports
NAT/DHCP though, although bridging appears to work fine. Other
comments:
* Configuration is done via a web browser (bleah).
* Only supports 40-bit encryption. Don't know if it's like the AirPort
when it comes to the 128-bit encryption upgrade, though.
* Keys can be entered as hex (yes!).
* The $279 model doesn't have a modem. With a modem, it's $299 (the
same as the AirPort).
* It works fine with my Lucent Orinoco (WaveLan) gold card (we didn't
try enabling encryption, though).
--
Darryl Okahata
darrylo@soco.agilent.com
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