[NCLUG] Wireless cards and Linux

[Quent]

Here's some more info on hacking the Apple Airport Base station.
I've discovered that it's a nice, inexpensive piece of hardware.
It uses the orinoco (a.k.a wavelan) card.

For configuring without using a MacOS machine:

	http://gicl.mcs.drexel.edu/people/sevy//airport/

For increasing the encryption to 128 bits:

	http://gicl.mcs.drexel.edu/people/sevy//airport/128bit.html
	http://www.msrl.com/airport-gold/

Thanks John for pointing me towards the Airport base station.

Quent

On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 03:33:23AM -0700, John L. Bass wrote:
> 	But if you couldn't mix-n-match these things
> 	why is the standard there?
> 
> 	It's range more than acceptably covers my
> 	apartment (and most of my neighbors for that matter).
> 
> 	Prescott Oelke
> 
> Mixing 802.11 vendors equipment in a network is the goal of 802.11. It works pretty
> well for the most part. What doesn't work well are diagnostics and mobile operation
> between cells of different vendors. Some vendors are bending over backwards to lock
> customers in with "value added" features not covered by the standard. What is not
> supported in the standard, is mixing FHSS and DSSS systems - not a great idea.
> 
> What is prohibted by the FCC is using one vendors antenna/cable options with another
> vendors radios, and third parties selling antenna/cable accessories for radios they
> have not completed the certification with.  Especially where the combination violates
> radiated power limits (using dish antennas with 500mw radios for example). Selling "N"
> male adapters, with 30dBi dish antennas, for use with an arbitrary 802.11 mfgrs radios
> without certification would subject the seller to at least $275,000 in fines and criminal
> penalties. Some people are doing this to allow two people to connect homes/businesses
> outside the nominal 300-1000' range of the radios with stock antennas - not wise in the US.
> 
> I think Airport's are great, and certainly do a great job in mixed PC and Mac shops.
> A great read on setting them up is:
> 
> 	http://www.macintouch.com/airport.html
> 
> An interesting read on hacking the antenna connection on the AirPort is (nice inside pics):
> 
> 	http://www.wwc.edu/~frohro/Airport/Airport.html
> 
> But I would limit your choice of antennas to those sold by Lucent, like the range extender.
> The other suggestions offered could get you in trouble in the US.
> 
> John
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