[NCLUG] Linksys WAP11

Quent quent at pobox.com
Tue Mar 20 19:02:22 MST 2001


I forgot to add - I'm not using the Linksys access point with my Linksys
wireless card, but rather the Apple Airport Base Station, which I was able
to configure with a nice Java app on a Linux box.  The AUTHOR file says:

	AirportBaseStationConfigurator
	http://gicl.mcs.drexel.edu/sevy/airport
	Jon Sevy     <jsevy at mcs.drexel.edu>
	Geometric and Intelligent Computing Laboratory
	Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
	Drexel University
	http://gicl.mcs.drexel.edu/sevy 

It's one of the better deals out there for access points and it
looks like a little UFO :)

	Quent

On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 02:28:18PM -0700, Quent wrote:
> I've been using the Linksys card; had to do minor hacking on the driver
> but it works just fine.  The driver gets a vendor code of zero and won't
> load. I changed the switch statement to make it not ignore it. Works
> find but I don't think all the features are supported, like power
> management. The wvlan driver is the one. The card actually has a
> prism chip (intercil/Harris I think).
> 
> The Linksys access point looks pretty cool - everyone seems to have them
> on backorder. Seems like another card and a PCI slot adapter would be
> a good way to go - make a desktop system into an access point.
> 
> 	Quent
> 
> 
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 10:43:35AM -0700, Chris Hardy wrote:
> > I'm seriously thinking of getting a Linksys Wireless Access Point w/the
> > Linksys PC Cards.  I've recently begun to hear bad things about the
> > linksys cards though.  Anyone have experience with this hardware?  Any
> > prefrences over say, a Orinico(whatever the Wavelan cards have changed
> > their name to) PCMCIA Card?  And of course, anyone know where I could
> > pick up a Orinico cheap?
> > 
> > Thanks for any help.
> > 
> > 
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