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Wireless PCMCIA cards



All 802.11b wireless cards should work with all 802.11b access points.
I have personal experience that Cisco and Lucent hardware will
interoperate fine.

Note that WEP may not interoperate properly, but then again WEP is
useless ;)

-derek

"Robert P. Sarao" <sarao at tiac.net> writes:

> The question I have is, can you mix cards with switches... If I have a
> cisco wireless are there setting to make the other cards talk to it..?
> 
>                                                                                                              Robert
> 
> 
> At 12:21 AM 2/21/2002 -0500, Drew Taylor wrote:
> >Hello all,
> >
> > Based on one of the recent threads, I'm looking for wireless LAN
> > PCMCIA cards. Specifically I looked at the Cisco cards (too
> > expensive for my blood at $150) and Lucent cards (Silver Orinoco for
> > $60). Finally, I've found a proxim card at $40, but know nothing
> > about it. Does anyone have experiences w/ the Proxim line? The
> > specific card is the RangeLAN DS, but Proxim's website has no
> > references to this product.
> >
> > The card I get should work under Windoze 98/2000 and Linux. OS X
> > support would be a nice plus. Any opinions & comments are
> > welcome. Thanks.
> >
> >Drew
> >Drew Taylor                     JA[P|m_p|SQL]H
> >http://www.drewtaylor.com/      Just Another Perl|mod_perl|SQL Hacker
> >mailto:drew at drewtaylor.com      *** God bless America! ***
> >
> >
> >
> >
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-- 
       Derek Atkins
       Computer and Internet Security Consultant
       derek at ihtfp.com             www.ihtfp.com




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