[SPARCbook] Wireless Recap

[Ken Hansen]

We have (AFAIK) no reason to believe the Aironet cards are supported under
*any* SPARC OS at this time...

It is my understanding that WaveLan 2 Mb/s cards are supported under Solaris
2.6, but no first-hand reports have been posted here AFAIK.

We only have reports that Tadpole *was* working on support for Aironet
cards, but current status and availability of driver software is not
currently available, again, AFAIK.

I'd say persue the WaveLan solution, and the Apple devices *[s|c]ould be*
compatible with it.

Also, the Orinoco Residential gateway is a nice deal, < $350 includes a
dial-up port as well as ethernet...

Linksys also has a low-cost accesspoint, but I've not heard anything on it
first-hand (yet)...

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Evans" <mevans at cse.unl.edu>
To: <sparcbook at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2000 12:48 AM
Subject: [SPARCbook] Wireless Recap


>
> Ok.  I want the official story (isn't this in a FAQ yet ?).  Can i get
> good wireless ethernet working with a sparcbook 3gs running solaris 2.5.1
> D.1 ?
>
> My fiance has a powerbook and we've got a nice computer lab here in the
> apartment, but given that we've got two laptops and no computer access
> anywhere else in the apartment, im thinking wireless, with Apples AirPort
> as the obvious solution (works with Aironet, $300 hub, etc).
>
> Therefore, I want to know if anyone has gotten  a reliable and more
> importantly interoperable wireless solution going with the sparcbooks.
>
> Ideally someone would tell me something like this
>
> 1. Buy apple airport hub
> 2. configure it to bridge to your physical lan
> 3. buy cisco aironet cards for each laptop
> 4. plug it all in, it just works like magic.
>
>
> im guessing it wont be quite that easy, but im curious to hear people's
> luck with the newer wireless hardware on sparcbooks.
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
>
> Matt Evans  -  mevans at cse.unl.edu
> Comp Sci / Math, Class of 2000.
> "No one will be left to prove that numbers existed,
>  Maybe soon the children will be born open fisted" -- Dave Mustaine
>
>
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