Aviator and Apple Airport

[Greg Lehey]

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On Saturday, 22 September 2001 at 13:47:05 +0800, Matthew Lambie wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> My first foray into wireless networking. Yesterday we began
> collecting Galaxy antenna from the local community. Got 4, and have
> another 5-6 to get in a few days when the rain stops ;)
>
> Anyway... I have an Aviator 2.4 card in a Linux box and want to
> point it at an Airport that is a fair distance away. Has anyone
> successfully gotten the Airport to talk to an Aviator card? If so,
> does it work like a switch and communicate to me at 2MB and the
> others at 11MB, because there was concern that it would drop to 2MB
> for all connecting cards. I have not tried any of this yet, but
> wanted to know what people had found in their own experiments.

> Any help will be appreciated ;)

Sorry, they're incompatible.  The Aviator runs 802.11 FHSS, the
Airport 802.11b DSSS.  The speed difference isn't a problem, but the
modulation technique is.

Greg
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