Re: [Aironet] Kernel 2.4.0 - PCM342

[Tim K. <tke...@ye...>]

On Mon Jan 15, 2001 at 12:32:36AM +0100, Toens Bueker wrote:
>   
> I like the Aironet Access-Point (because of its brilliant
> WEP performance) - but because of the problems above I'd
> like to know, whether anybody could give me some advice on
> alternative cards, which have better Linux support (and an
> equivalent performance).

I have a PCM340 and a PC340 card at my house, where I use a linux gateway
between my home network and a cable modem from RoadRunner.  The PC340 card 
resides in the computer serving as the gateway.  The gateway runs Debian 
GNU/Linux with the 2.2.18pre21 kernel.  it's an old pentium 133 and I 
couldn't get 2.4.x kernels to boot on it.  airo.o is compiled into the 
kernel as a module.  I use the PC340 in adhoc mode, with a DHCP server
listening to that interface.
My laptop uses the PCM340 card, and it has no problem getting an address
via DHCP and using the PC340 as it's gateway.

At my office, we use a PCM340 in the same configuration, adhoc with DHCP,
in a Dell Laptop, since we're in a temporary office and don't wanna wire
it up.
We've also experimented with the Apple Airport, which for $300 is about the
cheapest AP that you can get.  I don't know if this is true for all of them,
but the one we have only allowed 10 connections.  We've had Wavelan cards, 
Orinoco cards, the Apple cards, which I think are really Lucent cards, and
both the Cisco and Dell branded Aironet cards.  All of them worked together
without issue.  

All of these devices worked just fine across platforms that included win98
win2k, linux (2.2.x,2.4.x), and MacOS 9.  We never got to try Linux on the 
Mac with any of the wireless cards, though.

-Tim



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