Re: [NTLK] Wireless support in X

From: Jeffrey M. Swiger (n8noe_at_mac.com)
Date: Mon Jul 08 2002 - 01:52:08 EDT


A WaveLan Card on a Ti-Book works Fine!!! an Airport Card is a Lucent
WaveLan Silver!!....

On Monday, July 8, 2002, at 01:47 AM, Jim Witte wrote:

>
>> core of your OS is open source, after all. And thank goodness, as
>> Apple
>> decided for some silly-ass reason NOT to support WaveLAN cards
>> themselves
>> in OS X (they did in OS 9; WaveLAN/Orinoco cards showed up as AirPort
>
> The general consensus I've heard is that they want people to buy the
> Airport card, which IS a silly-ass reason - they could at least support
> the WaveLan if you already HAVE an Airport (I'd like to use a WaveLan
> with a TiBook to get better reception.)
>
>> If you want a TCP/IP or AirPort packet sniffer or nearby network
>> locater,
>> search www.versiontracker.com for: MacSniffer, MacStumbler
>
> I haven't looked into packet sniffers, but just had to mention the
> name of one I found on SourceForge: AirSnort (complete with a pig
> logo!). That might be interesting to port to Newton (is Hiroshi
> planning to release an API?)
>
> Jim
>
>
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