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Re: lucent wavelan 11mbps silver 802.11 pcmcia under linux

From: Bryan Andersen <>
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 13:26:54 +0000

hurley bryan wrote:

> can these work both ways: talk just to each other, say 4-XX number of
> computers talking to each other with no base station: what is the limit?

2 - peer to peer without a base station.  The base station is needed 
to coordinate time slots for any more.

> vs:
> needing the base station: Apple Airport work right? but needs a mac to
> control?

To control the Airport base station and use the encryption yes you do 
need to have MACs, but otherwise no.

Others make base stations that are web or telnet configureable.

> and are they compatible with the Aviator WebGear 2.4 in one of these
> modes?

Depends...  Are they both IEEE 802.11 DSSS @ 2.4GHz?  There is one 
gaping hole in the standard, and that is over the lowest hardware 
layer.  Atleast most manufacturers are going with DSSS in the 2.4GHz 
ISM band.

> I have collected what I thought were the best thoughts from the slashdot
> discussion and put them at
> http://www.gl.umbc.edu/~bhurle1/802_11.txt

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