[lug] Webgear Aviator2.4 WLAN

[Alan Robertson]

Rob Riggs wrote:
> 
> Alan Robertson wrote:
> >
> > It's an ISA bridge then?  In theory, I should be able to even put it in a 486?
> 
> Yes. The sets they we all purchased came with 2 PCMCIA cards and 2
> ISA-PCMCIA adapter cards.
> 
> > Can laptops use DHCP through the Aviator card?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > For example, if I put it up in
> > my mother-in-law's house, and one here, and had DHCP servers on both, should I
> > be able to move back and forth without any reconfiguration?
> 
> Yes. Sean got DHCP working just last week. He needed to tweak the
> init script sequence so that dhcpd was started after the PCMCIA
> code. But that was the extent of it. The laptops required no
> changes whatsoever.
> 
> Oh, BTW, I did get the SMP changes done and sent off to the driver
> author. So you don't have to stick it in the 486. You can now use
> that spare quad-xeon you've got down in the basement. ;-)

So *that's* what's in the pile in my basement?  I'd been wondering...


	-- Alan Robertson
	   alanr at bell-labs.com