Re: [Wirelessdriver-support] G3 WallStreet/Orinoco Gold/AirPort Extreme...

[Vincent C. <vca...@ma...>]

At 10:36a -0700 2003.06.25, Erich Champion wrote:
>I would definitely not recommend an Airport Extreme base station.
>
>Nothing but a Mac with a Airport card will connect to mine.

I fear that somehow your base station is not running in compatibility 
mode. I encountered the same problem when I took delivery of a pair 
of Linksys 802.11g access points two days after they started 
shipping. I deployed them but could not get older equipment to 
connect. The Linksys 802.11g cards worked quite well but nothing 
else. It was a week before the combination of Linksys tech support, 
online forums and actual manual-reading elicited the solution as well 
as the means to effect it.

 From Apple<http://www.apple.com/airport/specs.html>:
>AirPort Extreme is backward compatible
>You can use the AirPort Extreme Base Station with your 802.11b 
>AirPort Card and still enjoy significant benefits. That's because 
>the AirPort Extreme Base Station features a Compatibility mode as 
>its default setting. And Compatibility mode automatically supports 
>not just the AirPort Extreme Card, but also the previous version of 
>the AirPort Card and any other 802.11b-compliant product - Mac or 
>Windows.
>
>Compatibility mode enables both AirPort and AirPort Extreme-enabled 
>computers to use an AirPort Extreme Base Station at the same time.

Though I hope it's outdated now <g>, this thread may provide some 
useful information and links: 
<http://www.socketforum.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1301>
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