Wireless gurus

[Keith Morse]

On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, David A. Bandel wrote:

> 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).
> 


That is irksome.  The MS-Windows client managers for Orinoco and Avaya 
also exhibit this schizophrenic behaviour also.  One won't recognize 
the others card.  And yet I've see Smartbridges AirNIC's associate with 
Orinoco AP's.


Just out of curiousity have you ever looked into monitoring parameters on 
AP's like signal strength, noise, SNR using MRTG?