[SPARCbook] Wireless Recap

[Thomas Roehr]

I am using the Lucent card under Linux on my thinkpad, but Solaris just ignores
it. If we can get some help on bring SB Linux pcmcia card services online, then
it would be done.

Tom Roehr

Ken Hansen wrote:

> 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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