From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Sep 5 17:40:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from zaphon.llamas.net (zaphon.llamas.net [207.203.36.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6AA2337B422 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 17:40:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 16236 invoked by uid 1001); 6 Sep 2000 00:40:45 -0000 Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 17:40:44 -0700 From: Greg Rumple To: Brad Knowles Cc: Vivek Khera , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: affordable wireless Message-ID: <20000905174044.C15222@zaphon.llamas.net> References: <14772.16607.870040.12214@kci.kciLink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from blk@skynet.be on Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 11:45:40AM +0200 X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Editor: Vim http://www.vim.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Brad Knowles (blk@skynet.be) [000905 10:02]: > At 8:39 PM -0400 2000/9/4, Vivek Khera wrote: > > > The AirPort base station contians within it a "silver" wavelan PCMCIA > > card. The regular wavelan cards you buy work well with it. > > I'm using this solution myself. In fact, I replaced the WaveLAN > card in the AirPort with a WaveLAN Gold (so that I can do 128-bit > encryption), and kept the WaveLAN Silver as backup. > > > I happen to have a Mac around to configure it, but I understand that > > the Karlbridge software for Windoze will configure it as well (except > > for some features such as the modem dialout). > > I downloaded the Karlbridge software and installed it on my > wife's PC laptop, and tried to use it to configure the AirPort. I > could not get this to work properly, so for the moment we're actually > running without encryption (the Karlbridge software is supposedly > able to allow you to change how the password is stored, because Apple > uses a hash of the password on the AirPort and in the Mac client, but > everyone else in the world uses the raw password itself). Use the java based configurator on this web site to configure it with. I have used this tool under FreeBSD just fine. http://edge.mcs.drexel.edu/GICL/people/sevy/airport/ I think I am using the linux-jdk for it, but it works none the less, and allows you to configure your base station from any OS. I have my basestation in bridging mode, and have yet to have a single problem with it (it's got an uptime of about 70 days right now). Greg -- Greg Rumple grumple@zaphon.llamas.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message