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Re: AirPort Base Station



 On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 05:30:28AM -0800, Henry Stevenson wrote: 
> Greetings Liste, 
> 
> I was just handed an Apple AirPort Base Station that looks like a flying saucer!  It suspect it is five plus years old.   
> 
> My question is how do I configure it to work with a Dell with a Linksys wireless PCI card?  Is there downloadable software or manual that can help me configure this work? 

Inside is a Lucent/Orinoco 802.11b PCMCIA card, plugged into a 
80486-equivalent embedded computer. 4MB RAM, 512KB flash. 

You can program it with a Mac running Airport software, or with 
a Linux box running this: 

http://gicl.cs.drexel.edu/people/sevy/airport/

If you want to experiment, you can install Linux on it: 

http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/AirportLinux

-dsr- 


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