12 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-mobileWavelan base stations (Re: Aviator 2.4)| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Scott Hazen Mueller | Nov 22, 2000 10:13 am | |
| Duncan Barclay | Nov 24, 2000 3:56 pm |  .txt, .txt |
| Scott Hazen Mueller | Nov 25, 2000 10:42 pm | |
| Duncan Barclay | Nov 26, 2000 4:40 am | |
| Scott Hazen Mueller | Nov 27, 2000 11:46 pm | |
| Duncan Barclay | Nov 28, 2000 12:07 am | |
| Warner Losh | Nov 28, 2000 12:24 am | |
| Peter Radcliffe | Nov 28, 2000 10:05 am | |
| Scott Hazen Mueller | Nov 28, 2000 12:42 pm | |
| Warner Losh | Nov 28, 2000 12:51 pm | |
| Richard Johnson | Nov 29, 2000 9:21 pm | |
| Peter Radcliffe | Nov 30, 2000 9:34 am |
| Subject: | Wavelan base stations (Re: Aviator 2.4) | |
|---|---|---|
| From: | Peter Radcliffe (pi...@pir.net) | |
| Date: | Nov 28, 2000 10:05:29 am | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-mobile | |
Scott Hazen Mueller <sco...@zorch.sf-bay.org> probably said:
I have now, and can't make them go under Win98 either. I think one or both of the radios is toast. I think it's time to give up on these and go ask Santa for a Lucent gateway kit for xmas...
My, very strong, advice is; don't touch the lucent residential gateway with a bargepole.
It's the same guts as an apple airport, but with partly broken firmware and crippled configuration software.
The firmware on the lucent gateway forces the first 6 characters of the network name to seemingly random hex digits (not related to the mac address or the id of the unit) and the software won't let you use 90% of the unit's features and won't even let you change the SNMP community string.
The Apple Airport has a free configurator (that does also work with the lucent gateway, apart the broken network name problem), doesn't have broken firmware, the extra features of the unit (mac address filtering, etc) are supported by apple and it's even normally cheaper. It looks cooler, too :)
I've played with both pretty extensively and survey says; buy an airport.
P.
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