On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 02:20:56PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: :Can you mix and match 802.11(b) gear and expect it to cooperate?
Yes, that's the point. Expecting and it actually happenning.... I've seen a mix of cards talk to Lucent/Oronoco (sp) card, so I'd be optimistic about that. There are (or were) media converters to go from a wired NIC to 802.11 (bring your own card though), I got my hands on one and it didn't quite do what I wanted. My hope was that I could plug this frob into a port on my hub and it would pass through a signal from my laptop. No dice, apparently there's a difference in the standard between an access point and a client node. After much mucking about I did get it attached to my Linux router (parameters need to be passed at module load to set Ad Hoc mode or something), It did finally work, but I had to return the hardware. Not sure where to hunt one of these down or how much they cost, the one I had was from Lucent. a SOHO class wireless hub would be cleaner, and they usually (always) have RJ45 jacks. -Jon
