Re: Wavelan

2001-04-11 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, you wrote: http://www.expansys.com/category.asp?cat=WIREL claim delivery 3 days, but whether they are what you want or how their prices compare I have no idea. (Cheap efficient when I bought my Psion netBook some time ago.) I'll phone em in the morning ... 'Hello

Re: Wavelan

2001-04-10 Thread Neil Ford
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 07:29:56PM +, Robin Szemeti wrote: my current plan of attack is probably 2 lucent/orinoco wavelan 128/RC4 cards .. one in the laptop .. one in the border router machine on an ISA adaptor .. one guy I spoke to reckoned it would work .. another reckoned I was an

RE: Wavelan

2001-04-10 Thread Andrew Bowman
From: Neil Ford [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] The perl script to do stuff with wireless scanning and GPS had me salivating :-) Time to buy an eTrek I think. Where was GPS mentioned? I had a good hunt round (by myself and with the assistance of the Altavista host: search parameter) but couldn't

Re: Wavelan

2001-04-10 Thread Neil Ford
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 02:36:31PM +0100, Andrew Bowman wrote: From: Neil Ford [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] The perl script to do stuff with wireless scanning and GPS had me salivating :-) Time to buy an eTrek I think. Where was GPS mentioned? I had a good hunt round (by myself and

Re: Wavelan

2001-04-10 Thread Roger Horne
On Tue 10 Apr, Robin Szemeti wrote: and .. should I ever find any of the Lucent/Orinoco/Agere Wavelan cards I'll buy them in a Flash(tm) .. neither freebsd services or your mates in Norwich have any .. infact no one does :( ... http://www.expansys.com/category.asp?cat=WIREL claim delivery 3

Re: Wavelan

2001-04-03 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Robin Szemeti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: my current plan of attack is probably 2 lucent/orinoco wavelan 128/RC4 cards .. one in the laptop .. one in the border router machine on an ISA adaptor .. one guy I spoke to reckoned it would work .. another reckoned I was an idjut (well we knew _that_

Re: Wavelan

2001-04-03 Thread mallum
Yes it DOES work. I run an Orinocco in an ELSA pcmcia-isa card ( about 35 quid ) on my gateway at home. Just make sure you use the latest pcmcia stuff and run the cards in 'Ad-Hoc' mode. Theres no need for bridging either, Linux seems to happily ferry packets from wired to wireless ( and vise

Re: Wavelan

2001-04-03 Thread Steve Mynott
Robin Szemeti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: yes .. I'd heard Airport was good .. can you still configuer it if you don't have an apple to talk to it with? indeed is there any configuration to do .. or is it jusrt a plain ethernet bridge? It does NAT by default and basically works without

Re: Wavelan

2001-04-03 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Steve Mynott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Robin Szemeti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: yes .. I'd heard Airport was good .. can you still configuer it if you don't have an apple to talk to it with? indeed is there any configuration to do .. or is it jusrt a plain ethernet bridge? It does

RE: Wavelan

2001-04-02 Thread Andy Mendelsohn
Robin Szemeti wrote on Sunday, April 01, 2001 3:29 PM I'm assuming you already have a basestation. If not, you'll probably be wanting one of those too. I can personally recommend the Apple Airport basestation yes .. I'd heard Airport was good .. can you still configuer it if you

RE: Wavelan

2001-04-02 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Mon, 02 Apr 2001, you wrote: Robin Szemeti wrote on Sunday, April 01, 2001 3:29 PM I'm assuming you already have a basestation. If not, you'll probably be wanting one of those too. I can personally recommend the Apple Airport basestation yes .. I'd heard Airport was good

Re: Wavelan

2001-04-01 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Sun, 01 Apr 2001, you wrote: On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 09:14:22PM +, Robin Szemeti wrote: Anybody care to suggest a decent purveyor of the Lucent Wavelan cards?? My two recommended suppliers are; http;//www.compconnect.co.uk web http://www.freebsd-services.co.uk ta muchly .. off to