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 --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 11:27:04PM +1200, James Tyson said:
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?
Yes. You need to run in peer to peer mode, which means that you can't bridge (generally), you have to route, and it can be a bit of a mission to get machines to talk to each other. But it can be done.
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.
We use the dlink one here, it seems to work ok, but it's not sub $500 - I'm not sure such a beast exists. Buy a PCI carrier board and another card, and do real ptp crypto - you'll be much happier. Cheers si --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog
On 8 Aug 2001, at 23:27, James Tyson 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 don't use one.
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?
I did this: http://www.freebsddiary.org/wireless-install.php <== The point of the article is installing FreeBSD over a wireless NIC, but part of that process involved creating a dual homed box, with one NIC as a Orinoco card, the other a regular card. -- Dan Langille pgpkey - finger dan(a)unixathome.org | http://unixathome.org/finger.php --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 11:27:04PM +1200, James Tyson wrote:
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.
The dlink ones work fine. They are about $1000 in Aus but only $199 in the US =) So get a friend over there to send you one. They have a dual mode power supply and thats where I got mine from. Does WEP and all Dean --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog
At 8:15 AM +1200 9/8/01, Dean Pemberton wrote:
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 11:27:04PM +1200, James Tyson wrote:
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.
The dlink ones work fine.
They are about $1000 in Aus but only $199 in the US =)
Sometimes cheaper than that on eBay. :^) Sometimes more expensive than that on eBay. :^( -- Andrew P. Gardner barcelona.com stolen, stmoritz.com stays. What's uniform about the UDRP? We could ask ICANN to send WIPO a clue, but do they have any to spare? Get active: http://www.tldlobby.com --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog
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At 8:15 AM +1200 9/8/01, Dean Pemberton wrote:
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 11:27:04PM +1200, James Tyson wrote:
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.
They are about $1000 in Aus but only $199 in the US =) Sometimes cheaper than that on eBay. :^) Sometimes more expensive than that on eBay. :^(
There are some absolute deals to be had on ebay (trademe is good too, but there's just not the same kind of volume... and there never will be), you just gota' know how to search, snipe and not get fscked by the budding 12year old fraudsters working out of some bangladeshi internet cafe'. Japan data point: 802.11b 11mbps wireless access points seem to be selling for a wide range of prices, with the low end being ~18000yen and the high end ~40000yen. All client end equipment (PCMCIA cards, PCI cards and USB devices) are all priced at ~14000yen. Setup and drivers, of course, are all in Japanese, but the boxes do have nice little penguin logos that tout their linux friendlyness... and that, my friends, trancends any language barrier. --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 11:27:04PM +1200, James Tyson wrote:
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.
The cheapest one I've seen is from Netgear in the 6-700 range, a little cheaper than the Dlink one. Its only 40bit WEP at the moment, although supposely it will be firmware upgradable to 128bit. Nicholas --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog
The WAP11 Netgear on new firmware features 128bit Common & Exchanged keys as well as turning the unit into a bridge ( Actuly it shits at 32 MAC's ) . I have one on the floor here at the moment in the office I have been playing with . Neat toy , Quite basic tho . Best Regards -- | Matthew G Brown | Wireless Network Specialist | Tasman Solutions LTD | DDI: +64 3 543 9092 | http://www.tasman.net On Thursday 09 August 2001 08:23, you wrote:
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 11:27:04PM +1200, James Tyson wrote:
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.
The cheapest one I've seen is from Netgear in the 6-700 range, a little cheaper than the Dlink one. Its only 40bit WEP at the moment, although supposely it will be firmware upgradable to 128bit.
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The WAP11 Netgear on new firmware features 128bit Common & Exchanged keys as well as turning the unit into a bridge ( Actuly it shits at 32 MAC's ) . I have one on the floor here at the moment in the office I have been playing with . Neat toy , Quite basic tho .
What's it worth? Cheers. James Tyson --- Samizdat New Media Solutions --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog
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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