On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Fred Buecker wrote:
> WaveLAN isn't "Airport" or "WiFI" compatible. Working on this is like
> programming support for a 360 baud modem. (just making a reference to
> old technology) Anyone who currently has an 802.11b WAP can access it
> with ANY 802.11b card. Making WaveLAN would require all new equipent to
> anyone involved and WaveLAN isn't exactly the easiest thing to find
> these days.
Err, Lucent sold WaveLAN-branded cards which are fully 2.4GHz IEEE 802.11b
compatible. I ripped a card out of a laptop on an 802.11b network, and
plugged it into my Newton using Hiroshi(sp?)'s driver and was quite happy
(ad-hoc only).
AT&T, and then later Lucent, _also_ sold WaveLAN cards that were in the
900MHz range, which is what I believe the Grouper cards were. Back when
they cost $800 or more, I believe. Carnegie Mellon used to have a network
of them. Back in 1994, you could have used your Newton with a grouper card
on our network...
I went to Hiroshi's web site, but it seems to have disappeared. Anybody
know where it went to?
gopi.
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