From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Dec 9 9:42:48 2000 From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 9 09:42:46 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from tantivy.stanford.edu (tantivy.Stanford.EDU [171.64.234.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63BBA37B400 for ; Sat, 9 Dec 2000 09:42:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (from techie@localhost) by tantivy.stanford.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id JAA64904; Sat, 9 Dec 2000 09:42:08 -0800 (PST) From: Bob Vaughan Message-Id: <200012091742.JAA64904@tantivy.stanford.edu> Subject: Re: airport firmware - help! In-Reply-To: from Doug White at "Dec 4, 2000 10:33:31 pm" To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu (Doug White) Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 09:42:08 -0800 (PST) Cc: grisha@ispol.com, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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. -- Welcome My Son, Welcome To The Machine -- Bob Vaughan | techie@{w6yx|tantivy}.stanford.edu | kc6sxc@w6yx.ampr.org | P.O. Box 19792, Stanford, Ca 94309 -- I am Me, I am only Me, And no one else is Me, What could be simpler? -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message