From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu May 24 3: 1:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from entoo.connect.com.au (entoo.connect.com.au [192.189.54.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAC4337B42C for ; Thu, 24 May 2001 03:01:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmk@worfie.net) Received: from stormcloud (qetesh.iteru.net [202.42.66.7]) by entoo.connect.com.au (Postfix) with SMTP id A87AAE37F3; Thu, 24 May 2001 19:58:51 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <020801c0e438$6d804c00$170c0b0a@cairo.iteru.net> From: "Daniel Kirkwood" To: , References: <20010524070211.4525.cpmta@c000.snv.cp.net> Subject: Re: Apple Airport Cards Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 18:00:55 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 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 ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 3:02 PM Subject: Apple Airport Cards > Does anybody know if Apple Airport wireless cards are usable > under FreeBSD? They're about a third cheaper than Orinoco cards > here in Australia ($199 compared to >$300). The Apple cards are not pin compatible with PCMCIA, so this won't work. > Is it also possible to use one in an ISA (or PCI) adaptor card > like the Orinoco cards or would I have to get a gateway? No, you'll have to put a real Orinoco/Wavelan card into the 'adaptor', and setup NAT or routing of some sort. If you want a 'real' base station, you'll have to buy something like the Orinico "Residential Gateway", or the Airport base station... both are roughly equivalent. A PC can't act as a proper base station. As an alternative, you could run the cards in IBSS peer-to-peer mode, and setup NAT/routing on one of the peers (probably your FreeBSD box). This is what I do at home, and it works nicely. Rgds, - Daniel. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message