[MLB-WIRELESS] dwl-520 + Powermac 6360 + Debian = AP

[Duncan Robertson]

Hi,

Just some vaguely interesting nerd trivia:

Although the DWL-520 generally works with newer machines by some bit of
luck it works very well using the hostap drivers on an Apple 6360/160,
quite an old machine (guess apple used the absoluete latest PCI chipsets
available at the time). Not quite the form factor of a dedicated access
point, but a new use running current software (debian/testing and kernel
2.4.19) for a smallish and solid linux based access point...

mininode:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo 
cpu             : 603ev
clock           : 160MHz
revision        : 2.1 (pvr 0007 0201)
bogomips        : 106.49
machine         : Power Macintosh
motherboard     : AAPL,e407 MacRISC
detected as     : 35 (Alchemy)
pmac flags      : 00000000
memory          : 24MB
pmac-generation : OldWorld


(this box will be a melb wireless node once we finish testing and find
the right spot for the antenna!)



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