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Re: Wireless IBM lan and PP sound on eBay

 From: Ken Williams <>
>A few things on interest on ebay.
>
>ONE 8227 HUB WITH TWO 92G7787 PCMCIS CARDS $200
>It is a wireless hub/access point and two PCMCIA cards for it.  I've
>already inquirde about extra cards.
>http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=61867573
>Look for the IBM links, it claims to have a 1200' range.

A cheaper and more helpful source for this cheap ibm hardware is

http://home.eznet.net/~kento/ibm8227.html

NOTE: this hardware runs at about 350kbit

NOTE: you need a nt server or os/2 machine to boot the wireless lan
bridge.

the $30 cards should be able to talk amongst themselves, though!  The
hard part is getting a driver.  Nobody seems to have written one yet 8<
I have neither the time nor the experience.

   - Kevin

 from: Mark Willis <>
  Aah, found it - I quote Adam Lambert:
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Do you have a linux-compatible method of booting one of these 8227's?
RPL servers run under Warp Server, NT Server, and Solaris x86.  None
of which I have at home.
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  So you might want to consider a proxy server, instead.  (Tim can tell
you all about how to do this under Linux, except that there isn't a
Linux driver for these cards - YET.)

  I've considered WinGate, and IPRoute, Windows and Dos programs
respectively - I am thinking of just putting a 386DX40 or 486sx33 to
good use as a IPRoute server with these cards.  With 8 Mb or 16 Mb or
RAM it'd do fine;   See for these pieces of software:

I'm leaning towards IPRoute as I can throw an old motherboard that I
have towards it & handle Modem, EtherNet, and Wireless LAN;  One guy
reports:
                IBM PS/1 386sx16 
                4096KB RAM 
                1.44MB FDD 
                102MB HDD 
                AE2000 UTP NE2000 Ethernet Card 
                3Com 3c509 Ethernet Card 
                Crynwr NE2000 and 3c509 Packet Drivers 
                Caldera OpenDOS 7.03 Beta 
                Zenith HOME*Works 500Kbps Cablemodem 
                IPRoute 1.18 (1.10?)

all works together nicely, and all is already owned except for IPRoute
<G> (Swap the 3c509 for a wireless NIC and the cable modem for a 56k
modem & those ought not to over-run a faster machine <G>)

IPRoute:
  http://www.mischler.com/iproute/
  (Ftp demos of IPRoute from
ftp://ftp.transient.net/pub/iproute/iprb0973.zip, for an earlier free
version, if you cannot yet afford the $50 just now.  His regular demo
only runs for an hour, but is newer, v 1.10 not 0.973 <G>)

WinGate:
  http://www.wingate.com/

  Do set up security on WinGate at least (I've heard bad rumors of
people not having theirs locked down & they get nailed as Spammers as
someone borrows their cable modem as an e-mail relay...)  Ask your ISP,
they should know what's needed <G>  I'll be trying out IPRoute pretty
soon, I was going to put a Modem/Ethernet machine together & get Tim to
put Linux (setup right to connect everything) on it, but IPRoute would
do it all on one machine, now...

  Mark, 

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