Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard?
Wes Peters wrote: Andre Oppermann wrote: Is there any supporting Access Point functionality, eg. using the freebsd server as AP? There's no special support for it, but it's just another interface. If you run it (and your other 802.11 devices) in ad-hoc mode, everything should work peachy. The only caveat is that you will have to use ad-hoc mode rather than infrastructure mode (putting a wi cart into infrastructure _server_ mode is not possible with open-source software right now), and you can't use them in bridging configurations because they cannot do promiscuous transmit (every packet they send must have the local card's ethernet address). To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard?
Nick Sayer wrote: Wes Peters wrote: Andre Oppermann wrote: Is there any supporting Access Point functionality, eg. using the freebsd server as AP? There's no special support for it, but it's just another interface. If you run it (and your other 802.11 devices) in ad-hoc mode, everything should work peachy. The only caveat is that you will have to use ad-hoc mode rather than infrastructure mode (putting a wi cart into infrastructure _server_ mode is not possible with open-source software right now), and you can't use them in bridging configurations because they cannot do promiscuous transmit (every packet they send must have the local card's ethernet address). Right. I should've said "it works fine as a router interface." In fact, my FreeBSD laptop with WaveLAN Silver interoperates daily with an OpenBSD router using a WaveLAN Silver, that's how I "connect" to the network at the office. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard?
Actually, I need to create a local wireless backbone between 8 seperate buildings in a small campus area that will share an sdsl internet connection through our freebsd server. The new intel pro wireless 2100 seems to address all of our issues, at least according to the intel webpage. :-) They also have a 50% off promotional package where you get the access point and two 802.11b pccards for $699.00 if you buy before the end of the year. I tried to use airports to connect two wired networks without success. Maybe I just wasn't able to configure them. I'm going to give the java/airport in ports a try. I didn't realize that it existed. Thanks. If anyone has any ideas on where I am off track, they would certainly be appreciated. Thanks, ed -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard?
Doug Ambrisko writes: BTW I saw ADDTRON http://www.addtron.com/ has a base station for around $220 that can do 128 bit encryption, has an antenna and is Web administered. I haven't used it but it looks interesting. I've started playing with one of these. It seems to have the interesting feature that it stops bridging all traffic after about an hour of operation, requiring a power cycle. Haven't tried upgrading the firmware yet though.. -Archie __ Archie Cobbs * Packet Design * http://www.packetdesign.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard?
Is there a list of wireless pc cards that work (and how well they work) with FreeBSD?? JRS To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard?
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" writes: : Is there a list of wireless pc cards that work (and how well they work) : with FreeBSD?? There's /etc/defaults/pccard.conf, which says breifly: Aironet 340/342 Series 11Mbps 802.11 wireless NIC Aironet PC4500 2Mbps 802.11 wireless NIC Aironet PC4800 11Mbps 802.11 wireless NIC Bay Networks BayStack 650 Wireless LAN Cabletron RoamAbout, WaveLAN/IEEE clone Compaq WL100 Corega KK Wireless LAN PCC-11 ELECOM Air@Hawk/LD-WL11/PCC (0.7.5) ELECOM Air@Hawk/LD-WL11/PCC (0.7.6 and later) Farallon SkyLINE Wireless Farallon Skyline 11Mbps Wireless Generic AMD Am79c930 based card ICOM SL-1100 ICom SL-200 Lucent WaveLAN/IEEE Melco Airconnect Melco WLI-PCM NCR WaveLAN/IEEE NEC Wireless Card CMZ-RT-WP PLANEX GeoWave/GW-NS110 TDK LAK-CD011WL WebGEAR Aviator 2.4 (ray driver, not 802.11b) Xircom CreditCard Netwave (cwn to be committed soon) ZoomAir-4000 Warner P.S. I'd like to have one of each of these. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard?
Is there any supporting Access Point functionality, eg. using the freebsd server as AP? Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" writes: : Is there a list of wireless pc cards that work (and how well they work) : with FreeBSD?? There's /etc/defaults/pccard.conf, which says breifly: Aironet 340/342 Series 11Mbps 802.11 wireless NIC Aironet PC4500 2Mbps 802.11 wireless NIC Aironet PC4800 11Mbps 802.11 wireless NIC Bay Networks BayStack 650 Wireless LAN Cabletron RoamAbout, WaveLAN/IEEE clone Compaq WL100 Corega KK Wireless LAN PCC-11 ELECOM Air@Hawk/LD-WL11/PCC (0.7.5) ELECOM Air@Hawk/LD-WL11/PCC (0.7.6 and later) Farallon SkyLINE Wireless Farallon Skyline 11Mbps Wireless Generic AMD Am79c930 based card ICOM SL-1100 ICom SL-200 Lucent WaveLAN/IEEE Melco Airconnect Melco WLI-PCM NCR WaveLAN/IEEE NEC Wireless Card CMZ-RT-WP PLANEX GeoWave/GW-NS110 TDK LAK-CD011WL WebGEAR Aviator 2.4 (ray driver, not 802.11b) Xircom CreditCard Netwave (cwn to be committed soon) ZoomAir-4000 Warner P.S. I'd like to have one of each of these. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard?
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andre Oppermann writes: : Is there any supporting Access Point functionality, eg. using the : freebsd server as AP? No. AP mode firmware is generally undocumented. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard?
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 03:46:27PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" writes: : Is there a list of wireless pc cards that work (and how well they work) : with FreeBSD?? There's /etc/defaults/pccard.conf, which says breifly: Aironet 340/342 Series 11Mbps 802.11 wireless NIC This should read: Cisco Aironet 340 Series 11Mbps 802.11 wireless NIC I though this had been fixed, but apparently it wasn't in all places. Aironet PC4800 11Mbps 802.11 wireless NIC These aren't 802.11b compatable. They played the usual game of releasing before the final IEEE vote on the standard to be early to market and didn't win the vote. The 802.11b compatable Aironet access points (Cisco APs) can be configured to support these, but the don't interoperate fully. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Supported wireless PCMCIA cards (was: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard?)
On Sunday, 10 December 2000 at 15:46:27 -0700, Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" writes: : Is there a list of wireless pc cards that work (and how well they work) : with FreeBSD?? There's /etc/defaults/pccard.conf, which says breifly: ... WebGEAR Aviator 2.4 (ray driver, not 802.11b) Specifically, it's 802.11 FHSS. I've been having a *lot* of trouble with this one. It maps a total of 52 kB into I/O space (48 kB + 4 kB, each contiguous), and I can't find that much memory. Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard?
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: Is there a list of wireless pc cards that work (and how well they work) with FreeBSD?? man -k 802.11 or man -k wireless should do it, but the man pages aren't quite that organized. All I can find grepping the 4.2 sources is Cisco/Aironet and Lucent WaveLAN/ Orinoco: an(4) and wi(4). Many of the cards on the market are Lucent OEMs, but it's still a crapshoot without direct knowlege. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard?
Andre Oppermann wrote: Is there any supporting Access Point functionality, eg. using the freebsd server as AP? There's no special support for it, but it's just another interface. If you run it (and your other 802.11 devices) in ad-hoc mode, everything should work peachy. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard?
Christopher Masto wrote: On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 11:23:00PM -0700, Wes Peters wrote: I am told that the Apple "AirPort Base Station", which is $399, works well and can be configured with the Java-based thing in the ports collection. I am further told that the Lucent/ORiNOCO RG-1000 base station is virtually identical, although more expensive and somehow inferior, although I don't understand the exact inferiorities. They're the same thing in different cases, it's hard to see how one can be superior in any way other than price. "The most stupid thing was that you couldn't set its network name to anything other than its serial number because on bootup, it copies its serial number over the first five bytes of the network name. It also can't be fully configured without the Windows software -- which is a bit misleading for me to say because even with the Windows software, you can only set it up to use the modem or provide NAT routing via Ethernet, and not set it up to do bridging." The "Windows software" is actually a Java applet that I saw running on FreeBSD at BSDCon. Don't believe everything you read, try to verify it first. I am thinking of getting one of these things, despite my strong desire to avoid owning such a stupid looking piece of hardware. Wait for the LinkSys; the dual antennas and price differential will be worth the wait. If the plethora of 802.11b equipment at BSDCon 2k is any indication, interoperability should be pretty good. But will I be able to configure the LinkSys? That's my primary concern. I only have FreeBSD, so if it requires any proprietary software at all, I can't use it. Besides that, I'll only be using this 10 feet away from the base. :-) If you're only 10 feet from the base, save several hundred dollars and buy a 4 meter patch cable. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard?
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Christopher Masto writes: : If you're only 10 feet from the base, save several hundred dollars and buy : a 4 meter patch cable. : : Thanks, that hadn't occurred to me. It depends on the 10' :-) My laptop roams between 3' and 75' of my closest outlet. Usually 5-10'. Patch cables are cheaper and faster (when was the last time you got 100Mbps over wireless?). Wireless cards are easier to expand the net with and easier to take to a slightly different place :-) Warner -- Seen on the door of an egineer at sun: "We're the dot in vm.core" To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard?
There is also a new access point (either just available or "RSN") from Zyxel (316); it is a combination of a 310 (cable modem/bridged DSL/PPPOE router) and single-card bridged access point. I'm using one at work (overkill since I'm not using the router) as a bridged access point; it works just fine in that role (plug the ethernet into the "LAN" (10/100!) port and leave the "WAN" port empty). Stock it only comes with 40 bit but maybe could be used with a gold (or equivalent) card (haven't tried it, though). The card it comes with is OEM'd by someone (Melco?) and does have an antenna jack. At home I'm currently using a Lucent card in a FBSD machine as a base; IBSS create does work; it gets a hybrid between BSS and ad-hoc mode (at least the client connects in infrastructure mode). In this mode the client is transmitting a lot, though; makes the laptop power supply get pretty warm. -- Pete To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard?
Nick Sayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christopher Masto wrote: I am told that the Apple "AirPort Base Station", which is $399, works well and can be configured with the Java-based thing in the ports collection. I am further told that the Lucent/ORiNOCO RG-1000 base station is virtually identical, although more expensive and somehow inferior, although I don't understand the exact inferiorities. It is inferior in two ways: Also, there are other alternatives to the AirPort (which is closer to $299 than $399). One is the Buffalo AirStation (around $280-$340, depending on options -- see http://www.melcoinc.com/english/network/air.html). Other, cheaper, access points have been mentioned here in earlier messages. The AirStation is sold in the US by TechWorks (http://www.techworks.com) among possibly others. I've got an AirStation, and it's not bad. Like most access points, it has only 40-bit encryption, though. It's configurable via a web browser, using password-protected web pages. However, because of this, the configuration needs to be done via a secure, wired lan, as the web passwords are transmitted in plain text. -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Agilent Technologies, or of the little green men that have been following him all day. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard?
I wrote: Also, there are other alternatives to the AirPort (which is closer to $299 than $399). One is the Buffalo AirStation (around $280-$340, I forgot to mention that the AirStation supposedly supports roaming between access points. I haven't tried it, though. -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Agilent Technologies, or of the little green men that have been following him all day. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard?
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Darryl Okahata wrote: I wrote: Also, there are other alternatives to the AirPort (which is closer to $299 than $399). One is the Buffalo AirStation (around $280-$340, I forgot to mention that the AirStation supposedly supports roaming between access points. I haven't tried it, though. Almost all APs support roaming, because they'd have to go out of their way to prevent it: roaming is controlled from the client end. Most clients seem to just implement the "wait until contact is lost with the current AP then scan for a new one" scheme, though cleverer approaches are possible. Roaming between AirPort and AirStation APs certainly works. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard?
Christopher Masto wrote: On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 07:23:40PM -0800, Charlie Root wrote: There is definately a trend to lower prices. I just found this. A new intel Intel PRO/Wireless 2011 LAN access point and two pcmcia cards for $699. The access point sounds interesting. I personally would like to use it as a repeater and network bridge. I am told that the Apple "AirPort Base Station", which is $399, works well and can be configured with the Java-based thing in the ports collection. I am further told that the Lucent/ORiNOCO RG-1000 base station is virtually identical, although more expensive and somehow inferior, although I don't understand the exact inferiorities. They're the same thing in different cases, it's hard to see how one can be superior in any way other than price. I am thinking of getting one of these things, despite my strong desire to avoid owning such a stupid looking piece of hardware. Wait for the LinkSys; the dual antennas and price differential will be worth the wait. If the plethora of 802.11b equipment at BSDCon 2k is any indication, interoperability should be pretty good. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard?
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wes Peters writes: : worth the wait. If the plethora of 802.11b equipment at BSDCon 2k is : any indication, interoperability should be pretty good. YAMAMOTO shigeru-san's collection of wireless cards was proof of that I think :-) Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard?
On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 11:23:00PM -0700, Wes Peters wrote: I am told that the Apple "AirPort Base Station", which is $399, works well and can be configured with the Java-based thing in the ports collection. I am further told that the Lucent/ORiNOCO RG-1000 base station is virtually identical, although more expensive and somehow inferior, although I don't understand the exact inferiorities. They're the same thing in different cases, it's hard to see how one can be superior in any way other than price. "The most stupid thing was that you couldn't set its network name to anything other than its serial number because on bootup, it copies its serial number over the first five bytes of the network name. It also can't be fully configured without the Windows software -- which is a bit misleading for me to say because even with the Windows software, you can only set it up to use the modem or provide NAT routing via Ethernet, and not set it up to do bridging." I am thinking of getting one of these things, despite my strong desire to avoid owning such a stupid looking piece of hardware. Wait for the LinkSys; the dual antennas and price differential will be worth the wait. If the plethora of 802.11b equipment at BSDCon 2k is any indication, interoperability should be pretty good. But will I be able to configure the LinkSys? That's my primary concern. I only have FreeBSD, so if it requires any proprietary software at all, I can't use it. Besides that, I'll only be using this 10 feet away from the base. :-) -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.netmonger.net Free yourself, free your machine, free the daemon -- http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard?
Christopher Masto wrote: On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 07:23:40PM -0800, Charlie Root wrote: There is definately a trend to lower prices. I just found this. A new intel Intel PRO/Wireless 2011 LAN access point and two pcmcia cards for $699. The access point sounds interesting. I personally would like to use it as a repeater and network bridge. I am told that the Apple "AirPort Base Station", which is $399, works well and can be configured with the Java-based thing in the ports collection. I am further told that the Lucent/ORiNOCO RG-1000 base station is virtually identical, although more expensive and somehow inferior, although I don't understand the exact inferiorities. It is inferior in two ways: 1. If you change the location string from "Lucent ORiNOCCO RG-1000", the Lucent configurator will no longer find it. 2. You can't change the network name. If you try, the first few characters will be overwritten with the hex number on the sticker next time you start it up. 3. You can't change the community name (that is, the configuration password) with the Lucent software. They count on the encryption to keep naughty folks from reconfiguring it, but they took no steps to prevent reconfiguration from the wired side. #3 is particularly damning. I look forward to the CERT advisories that talk about script kiddies changing the encryption key and community name as a DOS attack on these things. If I had one of these, the first thing I would do is ditch their crappy software and set it up with the Java one in the ports, changing the community name in the process. I am thinking of getting one of these things, despite my strong desire to avoid owning such a stupid looking piece of hardware. Get an Airport instead. There's certainly no good reason not to, so long as Apple takes no steps to invalidate the Java configurator. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard?
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 07:23:40PM -0800, Charlie Root wrote: There is definately a trend to lower prices. I just found this. A new intel Intel PRO/Wireless 2011 LAN access point and two pcmcia cards for $699. The access point sounds interesting. I personally would like to use it as a repeater and network bridge. I am told that the Apple "AirPort Base Station", which is $399, works well and can be configured with the Java-based thing in the ports collection. I am further told that the Lucent/ORiNOCO RG-1000 base station is virtually identical, although more expensive and somehow inferior, although I don't understand the exact inferiorities. I am thinking of getting one of these things, despite my strong desire to avoid owning such a stupid looking piece of hardware. -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.netmonger.net Free yourself, free your machine, free the daemon -- http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard?
There is definately a trend to lower prices. I just found this. A new intel Intel PRO/Wireless 2011 LAN access point and two pcmcia cards for $699. The access point sounds interesting. I personally would like to use it as a repeater and network bridge. http://www.intel.com/network/products/wireless.htm https://merchant.hibbertco.com/servlet/InteComServlet?SessionID=319728709221315074OrderID=71803ItemCnt=1Adapters=yes ed Doug Ambrisko wrote: Warner Losh writes: | In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Doug Ambrisko writes: | : Well this is what I'm doing with the Aironet stuff. I have a script | : to flip between modes until it sync's up. I bought the PCMCIA ISA | : adapter for $25 from a local surplus place. | | Does this mean that the an driver can operate in "base station" mode? No, just ad-hoc (atleast that's what is published). So on my laptop my script flips between modes (ad-hoc infrastructure) until it sync's up with whatever it can find. I start it out of pccard.conf so it is automatic on card insertion, reboot or wakeup. | : BTW I saw ADDTRON http://www.addtron.com/ has a base station for around | : $220 that can do 128 bit encryption, has an antenna and is Web administered. | : I haven't used it but it looks interesting. | | I'll have to check this out as well. Let us know what you find out. Doug A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard?
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 01:46:51PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Doug Ambrisko writes: : BTW I saw ADDTRON http://www.addtron.com/ has a base station for around : $220 that can do 128 bit encryption, has an antenna and is Web administered. : I haven't used it but it looks interesting. I'll have to check this out as well. FWIW, I ordered one of these today.. I'll pass on my discoveries with my various wireless cards (mostly Lucent) if y'all are interested.. -aDe [today's toy is powered by the letters 'I', 'R' and 'S'] -- Ade Lovett, Austin, TX. [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard?
Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Doug Ambrisko writes: : Well this is what I'm doing with the Aironet stuff. I have a script : to flip between modes until it sync's up. I bought the PCMCIA ISA : adapter for $25 from a local surplus place. Does this mean that the an driver can operate in "base station" mode? : BTW I saw ADDTRON http://www.addtron.com/ has a base station for around : $220 that can do 128 bit encryption, has an antenna and is Web administered. : I haven't used it but it looks interesting. Linksys has a new one, WAP-11, that has all of the above and dual antennas (should be much better for signal diversity) for about $240, but nobody really has it in stock yet. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard?
Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wes Peters writes: : Dell is selling a Lucent-OEMed card for $139. I don't know if it is a : Silver or Gold, though. http://www.comready.com/dlindwwirlan.html is selling what appears to be a lucentOEM'd card for $119. It has 40-bit WEP, so I don't know what metal that makes it (despite having been told the last time this came up). Silver, according to the wicontrol(8) man page. ;^) There's no external antenna connector, however. Still not a bad price and with $20 of the price point for taking my whole house wireless. Yeah, thanks. I still haven't decided if I'm going to stick (another) wireless card in my gateway machine or buy an access point/bridge. The prices of PCMCIA card cages are frightfully high, making the cost roughly the same, and the access point would support infrastructure mode also. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard?
Wes Peters writes: | Warner Losh wrote: | | In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wes Peters writes: | : Dell is selling a Lucent-OEMed card for $139. I don't know if it is a | : Silver or Gold, though. | | http://www.comready.com/dlindwwirlan.html | | is selling what appears to be a lucentOEM'd card for $119. It has | 40-bit WEP, so I don't know what metal that makes it (despite having | been told the last time this came up). | | Silver, according to the wicontrol(8) man page. ;^) | | There's no external antenna | connector, however. Still not a bad price and with $20 of the price | point for taking my whole house wireless. | | Yeah, thanks. I still haven't decided if I'm going to stick (another) | wireless card in my gateway machine or buy an access point/bridge. The | prices of PCMCIA card cages are frightfully high, making the cost roughly | the same, and the access point would support infrastructure mode also. Well this is what I'm doing with the Aironet stuff. I have a script to flip between modes until it sync's up. I bought the PCMCIA ISA adapter for $25 from a local surplus place. BTW I saw ADDTRON http://www.addtron.com/ has a base station for around $220 that can do 128 bit encryption, has an antenna and is Web administered. I haven't used it but it looks interesting. Doug A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard?
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Doug Ambrisko writes: : Well this is what I'm doing with the Aironet stuff. I have a script : to flip between modes until it sync's up. I bought the PCMCIA ISA : adapter for $25 from a local surplus place. Does this mean that the an driver can operate in "base station" mode? : BTW I saw ADDTRON http://www.addtron.com/ has a base station for around : $220 that can do 128 bit encryption, has an antenna and is Web administered. : I haven't used it but it looks interesting. I'll have to check this out as well. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard?
Warner Losh writes: | In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Doug Ambrisko writes: | : Well this is what I'm doing with the Aironet stuff. I have a script | : to flip between modes until it sync's up. I bought the PCMCIA ISA | : adapter for $25 from a local surplus place. | | Does this mean that the an driver can operate in "base station" mode? No, just ad-hoc (atleast that's what is published). So on my laptop my script flips between modes (ad-hoc infrastructure) until it sync's up with whatever it can find. I start it out of pccard.conf so it is automatic on card insertion, reboot or wakeup. | : BTW I saw ADDTRON http://www.addtron.com/ has a base station for around | : $220 that can do 128 bit encryption, has an antenna and is Web administered. | : I haven't used it but it looks interesting. | | I'll have to check this out as well. Let us know what you find out. Doug A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard?
Thus spoke Warner Losh: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] John Baldwin writes: : I'm sending this e-mail over a WaveLAN Gold, and from my : understanding the Orinoco card is the same card with a different : name and a different sticker, so it should work fine. I'm doing the same thing. It is the same card with a different label. The newer firmware, however, sets the default channel differently than the older cards. Doesn't matter for infrastructure mode, but does for adhoc. Thanks to all who replied. I wasn't sure it was still the same as the WaveLAN product. Cheers, Sascha To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard?
Sascha Luck wrote: Thus spoke Warner Losh: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] John Baldwin writes: : I'm sending this e-mail over a WaveLAN Gold, and from my : understanding the Orinoco card is the same card with a different : name and a different sticker, so it should work fine. I'm doing the same thing. It is the same card with a different label. The newer firmware, however, sets the default channel differently than the older cards. Doesn't matter for infrastructure mode, but does for adhoc. Thanks to all who replied. I wasn't sure it was still the same as the WaveLAN product. Dell is selling a Lucent-OEMed card for $139. I don't know if it is a Silver or Gold, though. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard?
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wes Peters writes: : Dell is selling a Lucent-OEMed card for $139. I don't know if it is a : Silver or Gold, though. http://www.comready.com/dlindwwirlan.html is selling what appears to be a lucentOEM'd card for $119. It has 40-bit WEP, so I don't know what metal that makes it (despite having been told the last time this came up). There's no external antenna connector, however. Still not a bad price and with $20 of the price point for taking my whole house wireless. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard?
On Mon, 04 Dec 2000, Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wes Peters writes: Dell is selling a Lucent-OEMed card for $139. I don't know if it is a Silver or Gold, though. http://www.comready.com/dlindwwirlan.html is selling what appears to be a lucentOEM'd card for $119. It has 40-bit WEP, so I don't know what metal that makes it (despite having been told the last time this came up). There's no external antenna connector, however. Still not a bad price and with $20 of the price point for taking my whole house wireless. 40-bit WEP means silver. barry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard?
On 04-Dec-00 Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wes Peters writes: : Dell is selling a Lucent-OEMed card for $139. I don't know if it is a : Silver or Gold, though. http://www.comready.com/dlindwwirlan.html is selling what appears to be a lucentOEM'd card for $119. It has 40-bit WEP, so I don't know what metal that makes it (despite having been told the last time this came up). There's no external antenna connector, however. Still not a bad price and with $20 of the price point for taking my whole house wireless. 0 == bronze 40 == silver 128 == gold AFAIK Warner -- John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard?
John Baldwin wrote: [...] 0 == bronze 40 == silver 128 == gold FWIW, it is more correct to say either 0 == bronze 40 == silver 104 == gold or 0 == bronze 64 == silver 128 == gold WEP has a 24 bit sequence number that perturbs the encryption. The fact that 24 bit sequence numbers can be run through on a busy LAN might make one wish to institute weekly key changes before bothering to go up to 128 bit encryption (that, and the fact that the front door to your house probably has a lot fewer than 40 bits of security). To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard?
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sascha Luck writes: : has anyone got the Lucent Orinoco Gold (11MBit/s) PC-Card working : with the wi driver in -CURRENT? Yes. I'm running one right now. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard?
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] John Baldwin writes: : I'm sending this e-mail over a WaveLAN Gold, and from my : understanding the Orinoco card is the same card with a different : name and a different sticker, so it should work fine. I'm doing the same thing. It is the same card with a different label. The newer firmware, however, sets the default channel differently than the older cards. Doesn't matter for infrastructure mode, but does for adhoc. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard?
Hi, has anyone got the Lucent Orinoco Gold (11MBit/s) PC-Card working with the wi driver in -CURRENT? I know the Silver and Bronze cards work, but I'm thinking of buying the Gold for the 128 bit encryption... Cheers, Sascha To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard?
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 05:59:03PM +, Sascha Luck wrote: has anyone got the Lucent Orinoco Gold (11MBit/s) PC-Card working with the wi driver in -CURRENT? They work fine. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
RE: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard?
On 29-Nov-00 Sascha Luck wrote: Hi, has anyone got the Lucent Orinoco Gold (11MBit/s) PC-Card working with the wi driver in -CURRENT? I know the Silver and Bronze cards work, but I'm thinking of buying the Gold for the 128 bit encryption... Cheers, Sascha I'm sending this e-mail over a WaveLAN Gold, and from my understanding the Orinoco card is the same card with a different name and a different sticker, so it should work fine. -- John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
