[MLB-WIRELESS] linux ap's

[Ryan Abbenhuys]

/me waits for Jamie to setup a bulk purchase of via edens packaged with a
veritech card, enterasys card, and preconfigured for HostAP and routing on
a CF card.


>On Fri, 4 Jul 2003, Stygen wrote:
>
>> I have just finished setting up my new wireless gateway and hostap box.
>> It uses the senao/veritech 200mW card for hostap and a Cabletron
>> Roamabout in client mode.  Apart from the requirement of symbolic links
>> where the hostap makefile was somewhat lacking, it was fairly easy to
>> setup on RedHat 9 .
>
>Funny you mention the combo ...
>
>Where are these damn via edens with the onboard CF + PCMCIA slots? As far
>as I can tell from paper, these look like they will be a pretty good deal
>for this sort of application.
>
>You will be able to have an AP and a client card in them (they have one
>pci slot) and probably just run linux off a CF card. That should be oodles
>for one of these wlan-optimised distros. You could even get some routing &
>encryption sw into them so that you can handle all those sort of decisions
>up the pole, or in your roof!
>
>Cya,
>
>Jamie
>
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