From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Oct 18 9:13:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from peony.ezo.net (peony.ezo.net [206.102.130.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 928FF37B479 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 09:13:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jflowers@localhost) by peony.ezo.net (8.11.0.Beta3/8.11.0.Beta3) with ESMTP id e9IHLqq12816; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 13:21:52 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 13:21:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Flowers To: Peter Radcliffe Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wireless on desktop machines In-Reply-To: <20001018105708.B24400@pir.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Microwarehouse has Airports for $288, indicated in stock. Jim Flowers #4 ranked ISP on C|NET #1 in Ohio On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Peter Radcliffe wrote: > Mohan Khurana probably said: > > I began researching different wireless solutions. I found Lucent WaveLAN, > > which is essentially just a PCMCIA card mounted onto a PCI or ISA adapter. > > This would be fine, except for the fact that the prices of these cards are > > still quite high. The PCMCIA card is $180 retail, and I was unable to > > find a place that sells the adapters online, but I think it is around $60. > > If I get it used, I might be able to get it for $150 for the PCMCIA and > > $50 for the adapter. This is around $200 for each side of the "bridge" > > between our two networks. $400 seems like just two much. > > The lucent wavelan cards are the bext thing around for multi-system > support. > > You can buy cheaper ISA adaptors (I'm afraid I don't have any up to > date pointers, though), and you can use silver cards if you don't care > about encryption which are cheaper. > > Don't get the PCI card, it doesn't currently work with freebsd. If > you can find a dirt cheap laptop that has two pcmcia slots, you could > use that (this is what I did until I bought an airport, recently). > > I've seen airports go on ebay for under $300 (their retail cost). If > you're associated with a university you can get airport base stations > from apple with their educational discount ($20 off, I think). > > > Wow, I wrote a lot. :) Basically what I am looking for is an affordable > > wireless point to point solution, and if there isn't any, then feedback as > > to what I should buy and where I should buy the lucent wavelan products to > > get the best price. > > http://www.942wavelan.com/cgi-bin/shoppingcart?cmd=prod_s&prodid=10 > http://www.942wavelan.com/cgi-bin/shoppingcart?cmd=prod_s&prodid=6 > > I've had good luck with cdw.com (when they say next day, they mean it > and I like their support) too although the prices are a little higher, > they have no "processing fee" like 942wavelan. > > > On a related note, I recently looked at a lucent RG-1000 base station. > Don't buy them - it's the same hardware as an airport in an ugly case > for more money and the official software has fewer configuration > options (it doesn't let you change the SNMP community string, for > example). > > If you end up with one, you can treat it like an airport with the Java > configurator and using the default SNMP c.s. of "public". It messes > with the first 6 characters of the network name, though. > > P. > > -- > pir pir@pir.net pir@net.tufts.edu > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message