Delio, How much did it cost you?
On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 12:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi there, > > I did it... I've gone wireless! > > HARDWARE > > dse wireless pcmcia card and dse wireless access point > > the access point is a farily complex piece of hardware with a 4 port lan > hub / wireless access point / WAN interface for cable modems and dsl. > > I configured it as a plain and simple ip router on a different subnet > and routed to my linux firewall. > (I'm aware of all the security issues involved with 802.1b wireless > devices, but I needed to have it up and running so I'm only using 128 > bit WEP for now) > > the pcmcia card is based on ATMEL chipset AT76c502r with RFMD radio > (the dse manual is wrong! it says AT76c503a which is used on usb > devices...); driver is the open sourced one from > http://atmelwlandriver.sourceforge.net/ > there are two more revisions of this chipset (the radio frequency > stage controller) (e) and (d) , I'm currently running with the base > version, but both the other revisions seem to work as well (i'll try to > understand better what the differences are). > > Both are direct sequence spread spectrum devices. > > A couple of "bad" things about this card: you can't use it for > hacking...:( no raw packet dumping facility (firmware limitation) and > the antenna is PCB ... so not removable. > > cheers > -- > Delio -- Zane Gilmore, Analyst / Programmer Information Services Section, Information Technology Dept, University of Canterbury - Te Whare Waananga o Waitaha Private Bag 4800, Christchurch New Zealand Phone +64-3-364 2987 extn 7895
