[Duo2400] Re: Wireless cards

[Larry Friedman]

So you can't run the Skyline with airport? What software does it use?

~ Larry


On Tuesday, January 21, 2003, at 08:38  PM, ksantuccijr at earthlink.net 
wrote:

>
>
> Original Message:
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>>> Hey,
>>>
>>> I've been looking at wireless PC cards so I can hook my 2400 into
>>> the office and home Airport networks. So far I've seen the Lucent
>>> "Orinoco" and Farallon "Skyline" models. Does anyone have experience
>>> with these? Is the cardbus mod required for something like this?
>>> Which ones do you guys prefer? Since my only experience with
>>> wireless is Airport, what software do you use with these on 8.6?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Larry
>
> From: Mark Semon msemon1 at rochester.rr.com
>
>
>> Larry, the Skyline card works great. I used it on my 2400. It comes
>> with a CD that actually installs MAC OS drivers for this card. If I
>> recall, it's the only non-airport card that has mac drivers.
>
> Not So.
>
> I have a Cisco Aironet 340 series card that has drivers for Mac OS 
> 8.6-9.22
> and OS X! it works great and the utilities that come with it are top 
> notch
> as you would expect from Cisco. The 340/350 series is EOL so there are 
> many
> of them making there way into the distribution chanels right now and 
> if you
> look around you can find them under $50
>
> I have an AVAYA Branded Orinoco Gold card that I grabed off of eBay a 
> while
> back for under $60 that uses the Orinoco drivers.
>
> And of course there are the cards from the likes of MacWireless.com and
> Buffalo that also have Mac Drivers
>
>> I do
>> know that many here on the list have used the Lucent cards and use
>> TomeViewer to strip out the correct driver, etc... to make it work. I
>> haven't looked into it in a while, so maybe there are some other
>> options out there.
>
> The nice thing about the Lucent cards is that you can run them with the
> Apple Airport software so they will likely be supported for some time 
> to
> come and you won't have to go hunting up new versions of the software.
>
>> My preference would be the Skyline card. I ran System 8.6 on my 2400
>> as it only had the 80 megs of ram.
>
> The Skyline card is great if you never intend to use it with another 
> Mac
> and OS X, since Farralon has said that there will be no X update for 
> that
> card.
>
>> You do not need a cardbus enabled 2400 in order to use a 802.11 card.
>
> Aloha, Ken
>
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