Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 09:42:08 -0800 (PST) From: Bob Vaughan <techie@tantivy.stanford.edu> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu (Doug White) Cc: grisha@ispol.com, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: airport firmware - help! Message-ID: <200012091742.JAA64904@tantivy.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012042232160.33693-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> from Doug White at "Dec 4, 2000 10:33:31 pm"
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> On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Gregory Trubetskoy wrote:
>
> > Is there a way to get an apple airport firmware file without having a
> > Macintosh? (The files downloadable from Apple are in some strange smi
> > format)
>
> smi is a Self-Mounting Image and can only be read on a Mac.
>
> > Is it downloadable from somewhere or could someone posibly e-mail me
> > theirs?
>
> What part of the firmware do you want? The Base Station or the card? If
> you want it for the card and do not have a Mac you should just grab the
> standard Orinoco firmware and use a PC.
FYI: the Airport card for the mac is a OEM card, that supposedly does not
work with other machines.. It also does not have a built-in antenna.
Personally, I wonder if it might be a cardbus card? further investigation
is necessary.
For non-airport ready macs, you simply use a standard PCMCIA 802.11 DSSS card,
with associated drivers.
>
> For the Base Station you must have the Admin Utility on a Mac. If you can
> borrow someone's PowerBook for a while that's all you need :)
there is a java configuration utility, which is now in the ports collection
(/usr/ports/net/airport). It works like a charm, and can update the base
station firmware once you have the firmware un-archived.
I'll go as far as to say that IMHO, it works better than the Airport Admin
Utility.
I have the airport base station firmware v1.2 un-archived if anybody needs it.
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