From: Peter 'p2' De Schrijver (p2@mind.be)
Date: Wed Jun 11 2003 - 19:38:11 CEST
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 06:36:50PM +0200, Karsten Merker wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 10:46:29AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
>
> > 3. Exhibition Network
> >
> > This year the main exhibition network will be distributed through
> > WLAN. Hence, for each booth (or booth compound) there needs to be
> > at least one device that connects the inter-booth-lan to the wlan
> > network.
>
> If I understand this correctly, there will be no cable-bound uplink
> at all. Peter, do you have a working wlan card for your PWS500
> or some other means to hook us up to the wlan? You mentioned an
I have compaq PCI wireless card, but it's extremely picky about the
systems it wants to work with. This is due to the Cirruslogic PCI PCMCIA
bridge which violates most of the PCI standard. It doesn't work in the
alpha at all. I see 2 possibilities :
1) My "booksize" PC. It's a small PC with 3 8139 10/100BaseT controllers
and a builtin wireless chip connected to the USB. It has a 800Mhz VIA
C3 CPU, 12GB disk and 512MB RAM. Should be ok as a firewall I guess,
but it's IA32.
2) A level 1 wireless AP. The manual mentions something of a bridge
mode, but I never tried it.
> accesspoint. Can that one co-operate with other accesspoints?
> AFAIK not all models are capable of this. If it cannot - or at least
> it is not sure whether it can - does anybody else have one?
> Trying to run a "standard" wlan card in TurboChannel/SBus/GIO/GSC
> slots might pose a little problem :-/.
>
There exists a SBUS PCMCIA bridge card :)
Cheers,
p2.
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