From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Sep 26 22: 6:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from schooner.svjava.com (schooner.svjava.com [204.75.228.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0B3A37B422 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 22:06:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from kozowski@localhost) by schooner.svjava.com (8.9.1a/svjava.com) id WAA26473; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 22:06:42 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 22:06:41 -0700 From: Eric Kozowski To: Brooks Davis Cc: Chris Coleman , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Card Recommendations Message-ID: <20000926220641.B26212@schooner.svjava.com> References: <39D122D1.5C384A20@oreilly.com> <20000926204237.A7150@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.2i In-Reply-To: <20000926204237.A7150@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>; from brooks@one-eyed-alien.net on Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 08:42:37PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 08:42:37PM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: > You'll also want to consider access points. I've used the Lucent ones a > little and I have 5 Cisco ones at work. I really didn't like the Lucent > ones though they do have some nice features. Their configuration > sucked. The Cisco ones have a serial interface I haven't used and a > pretty nice web interface. Cisco also makes a home version of their > access point which is cheaper. I don't know much about it though I > think I know someone who has one. It compets directly with the Apple > Airport. The airport is supposed to be good, but could use the Apple > config program. Maybe someone could get the OS X people to build a > FreeBSD binary. ;-) i have an apple airport and it works great. there's a java based config tool that is excellent. i replaced the silver card with a gold card and added an external antenna (had to cut the case up a bit to get the cable out). i bought it for $240 off ebay. they're $300 new. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message