From: Martin Schulze (joey@infodrom.org)
Date: Wed Jun 11 2003 - 19:52:15 CEST
Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote:
> > 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 :
Not sure if it helps, but here are some details from the bandwidth sponsor:
> Ich habe Hier so an die 15 AP die ich benutzen kann alle von Cisco, 340,
> 350 und 1100. Bis jetzt hat noch jede Wavelankarte mit diesen AP
> funktioniert.
> 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.
Sounds good. You could hide it under the table and tell people that
it's the router.
> 2) A level 1 wireless AP. The manual mentions something of a bridge
> mode, but I never tried it.
Time to find out. :)
> There exists a SBUS PCMCIA bridge card :)
*smile*
Regards,
Joey
-- The good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from. -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum
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