Wireless gurus

[David A. Bandel]

On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 22:11:41 -0800 (PST)
Keith Morse <kgmorse at mpcu.com> wrote:

[snip]

> 
> Also IIRC, AirPort cards are based on Orinoco chipsets or out and out 
> relabeled Orinoco cards.  Orinoco cards are very well supported in
> Linux in the kernel-pcmcia code.  And, unfortunately (depends on your
> point of view really), not all 802.11b is the same.  Tried to get a
> Dlink bridge to associate with an Orinoco AP last week to no avail. 
> The Dlink was a 810+ 

True, Airports are basically Orinocos.  As are Avaya and WaveLan cards. 
Heck, even though they're even the same manufacturer, you can't get
Orinoco APs and Avaya APs to associate.  I've tried.  So forget
associating an Orinoco and a DLink.  The Wireless backbone software is
deliberately designed so only like systems will associate.  The wireless
hardware companies are worse than M$ (if that's possible).

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
-- 
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