[MLB-WIRELESS] Apple 1400 + Wireless card + ethernet card

[Wayne Stewart]

On 18/02/2002 02:11 PM, "clae at tpg.com.au" <clae at tpg.com.au> wrote:

> I am thinking of using an Apple Powerbook 1400 laptop as a wireless
> base station.  This is a 166 mHz 603e PowerPC based laptop, which can
> run MacOS 9.1 and PPC Linux.  It has a 16-bit PCMCIA slot, which will
> take two Type-II or one Type-III cards.  It does NOT have built-in
> ethernet, so one of the card slots would be taken up for this.  The
> one I am looking at has 40 meg of ram.

Better double check this I am sure that LINUX PPC does NOT work on a PB
1400.  At least the distribution I have got doesn't.  Maybe there is a new
one.

The PB1400 has a special internal slot (about midway along the back b/n the
SCSI & sound output port) which can act as an external monitor link or a
ethernet interface.  You may still be able to get the gadget that slots in
there from somewhere.

Software wise I would recommend IPNetRouter from http://www.sustworks.com/

Good luck,

Wayne

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