From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Oct 24 0:31:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from gvr.gvr.org (gvr.gvr.org [194.151.74.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8273B37B479 for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 00:31:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: by gvr.gvr.org (Postfix, from userid 657) id 5F02C5806; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 09:31:42 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 09:31:42 +0200 From: Guido van Rooij To: Archie Cobbs Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD base station? Message-ID: <20001024093142.A63380@gvr.gvr.org> References: <200010240432.e9O4Wui08181@curve.dellroad.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200010240432.e9O4Wui08181@curve.dellroad.org>; from archie@dellroad.org on Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 09:32:56PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 09:32:56PM -0700, Archie Cobbs wrote: > I'm just learning about wireless stuff so pardon my ignorance.. > > So these base stations (at least the WaveLAN ones) are just boxes > with an Ethernet jack and a PCMCIA card jack, into which you plug > a normal WaveLan card. And they cost $800 or whatever. Actually, Linksys just released one (the WAP11) which has an antenna builtin (so has a better coverage) for about $239. I have asked but not (yet) received an answer to my question regarding interoperability with the Wavelan (Orinoco) stuff. If it works okay the linksys station is a good deal. Furthermore you can buy an Apple airport for about $300. This is also a base station but based on a single pcmcia card (so the coverage is not as good) but has a builtin modem and it has NAT functionality (though I've heart it NAT not quite stable yet). -Guido To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message