[MLB-WIRELESS] Orinoco card as an Access Point

Michael Bailey mbailey at enternet.com.au
Thu Oct 4 20:47:15 EST 2001


You can use an Orinoco silver card to build an AP but it only supports
iBSS mode. But that's not a big problem. And yes, it's cheaper than buying
an RG1000 which you need to drill a hole into to fix and external antenna to.

You probably want to use the orinoco_cs drivers, flash the card if the firmware
is old and put the card into Ad-Hoc mode in order for clients to connect
to it as an AP.

Netstumbler will see it as an AP.

cheers,

Mike

On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 07:09:08PM +1000, Luke wrote:
> You guys are probably sick of me asking this but.......If something like a
> Airport or RG-1000 use orinoco silver etc, can you run a orinoco pcmcia card
> indiviually as an AP?  People keep saying "use a Prism II" but a cisco is a
> prism II but everyone in the know says no-can-do AP on a cisco.
> AAARRRGGGHHH!  If I cant run a pcm card as an AP then a RG-1000 from the US
> for $200 US might have to be the go, but if I can use a pcm card the Ill
> just get a card for $70 US.  (www.pricegrabber.com)  Cheers.
> 
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