Re: [NTLK] Newt as 802.11 AP (was: WaveLAN Driver 1.0)

From: Jesse Garnier (jgarnier_at_mac.com)
Date: Mon Jun 10 2002 - 15:48:40 EDT


Stainless Steel Rat wrote not long ago (6/10/02 3:37 PM):

> * Jesse Garnier <jgarnier_at_mac.com> on Mon, 10 Jun 2002
> | Ooooooh, what a great idea, turning a Newt into a software base
> | station/access point! No longer would you join a wireless network, you would
> | *be* the wireless network!
>
> Err... I'm not sure that this is even possible with the Newt. Can NIE 2
> act as a simple router? If it cannot be a router then it cannot be an
> access point.

Umm, yeah, of course it's not possible now... But then again, we can always
ask people like Paul Guyot about solving "impossible" programming tasks on
the Newton...

Not that I'm trying to enlist Paul or anything... ;)

Cheers--

--Jesse

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