Grab an old Lucent bronze card from LAN1 and put it in a linuxbox, set it to Adhoc ( make a BSS ) mode and you got a poor mans access point . You can also get a Zcomax / TT 11mb radio card and flash it with the XWL450 access point firmware and you got full blown AP for $100 :) But I didnt tell you to do that . I have "never" tryed this :) ... Best Regards -- | Matthew G Brown | Wireless Network Specialist | Tasman Solutions LTD | DDI: +64 3 543 9092 | http://www.tasman.net On Wednesday 08 August 2001 23:27, you wrote:
Hi all
Just a couple of quick questions to you folks that know so much about 802.11. Firstly, do I really need a base station? I have my new ibook here and I want to grab the airport card to use with the Cisco Aironet base station at work, but I was thinking is it possible to just throw an orinoco card or something in my Linux box gateway and use that in place of a base station while I am at home?
If not, does anyone know of any base stations in the sub $500 range that work reasonably? I am not really that worried about WEP and SSID while I am at home, because I will set my DHCP server up to only assign my card an IP address and use an encrypted tunnel to get to the net.
Cheers.
James Tyson --- Samizdat New Media Solutions
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