Re: wireless questions

2003-06-29 Thread Clemens Mangler
hi daniele! the airport works without problems, the the airport extreme not! i have wmwavwmon kismet and airsnort running on my ibook (with an airport card) you can not attach an external antenna to an airportcard in powerbooks or ibooks, since it is built in bye clemens On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 11

Re: wireless questions

2003-06-29 Thread Joerg Fabian Lesch
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Daniele wrote: > hello, > i'm about to buy the airport card. is it fully compatible with debian? > does anybody have tried to compile tools such wavemon, kismet or airtraf > on debian ppc? yep it works. I used airsnort with it. u have to patch the drive to enable monitormode

wireless questions

2003-06-29 Thread Daniele
hello, i'm about to buy the airport card. is it fully compatible with debian? does anybody have tried to compile tools such wavemon, kismet or airtraf on debian ppc? are there any dedicated tools? can i attach an omnidirectional antenna to it? (i mean, instead of the built in antenna i screw on a d

Re: Stupid wireless questions

2002-09-08 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
>>Note that Apple's latest MacOS airport driver update (or MacOS X 10.2 >>update) will update the airport card firmware to revision 8.40 which >>seems to have lots of problems with our driver. > >Is there any incantation to report the firmware version on an airport >card? I've poked around with i

Re: Stupid wireless questions

2002-09-05 Thread Yves
Le mer 04/09/2002 à 22:33, Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick a écrit : > >Note that Apple's latest MacOS airport driver update (or MacOS X 10.2 > >update) will update the airport card firmware to revision 8.40 which > >seems to have lots of problems with our driver. > > Is there any incantation to repo

Re: Stupid wireless questions

2002-09-05 Thread Michel Lanners
On 4 Sep, this message from Rogério Brito echoed through cyberspace: > I'll probably be saving some money the next few months up to > Christmas to buy me things for wireless access. :-) > 1 - Is the airport card (the one that goes inside the iBook) > completely suppo

Re: Stupid wireless questions

2002-09-04 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
Note that Apple's latest MacOS airport driver update (or MacOS X 10.2 update) will update the airport card firmware to revision 8.40 which seems to have lots of problems with our driver. Is there any incantation to report the firmware version on an airport card? I've poked around with iwlist a

Re: Stupid wireless questions

2002-09-04 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> >afaik this restriction is in the firmware, get a german or us firmware >and have fun - but think about legal issues (is WEP allowed in france?) It is allowed hopefully ;) I think there are ways to tweak the region setting of PrismII cards, though not of orinoco/airport ones Ben.

Re: Stupid wireless questions

2002-09-04 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
>I have an airport card in my ibook, and I have used non-apple bases >without problems.It's just a matter of channels. My card is a french >one, so I only have access to channels 10 to 13. If the base is a US >one, on channel 6 for instance (very common), it can't work, you have to >switch it to ch

Re: Stupid wireless questions

2002-09-04 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> > Well, I have some questions here regarding wireless cards, > with which I'd appreciate if I got any help. > > I'll probably be saving some money the next few months up to > Christmas to buy me things for wireless access. > > 1 - Is the airport card (the one that go

Re: Stupid wireless questions

2002-09-04 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
Yes, but I _think_ (not an expert though), you will have to flash the card. Instead you will have to be in "Ad-Hoc Mode" which one permit to clients to talk together without a base. But this mode doesn't support stats so no signal strength and so on... But I'm sure it's doable... As a datapoint,

Re: Stupid wireless questions

2002-09-04 Thread Philipp Schmidt
On Wed, 2002-09-04 11:03:49 +0200, Yves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Le mer 04/09/2002 à 10:19, Rogério Brito a écrit : > > > > Well, I have some questions here regarding wireless cards, > > with which I'd appreciate if I got any help. > > > > 2 - If one

Re: Stupid wireless questions

2002-09-04 Thread Pierre Gambarotto
On 04 Sep 2002 11:03:49 +0200 Yves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yep, it works without any problems... > Install the wireless-tools to set it up (with iwconfig), and you can use > it. > > > > 2 - If one would purchase a PCMCIA card for a x86 notebook, > > which brands would be reco

Re: Stupid wireless questions

2002-09-04 Thread Yves
Le mer 04/09/2002 à 10:19, Rogério Brito a écrit : > > Well, I have some questions here regarding wireless cards, > with which I'd appreciate if I got any help. > > I'll probably be saving some money the next few months up to > Christmas to buy me things for wireless acces

Stupid wireless questions

2002-09-04 Thread Rogério Brito
Well, I have some questions here regarding wireless cards, with which I'd appreciate if I got any help. I'll probably be saving some money the next few months up to Christmas to buy me things for wireless access. 1 - Is the airport card (the one that goes