Airport aerials

[Jamie Lovick]

On Fri, 24 May 2002, Steven Hanley wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 12:51:36PM +0930, Jamie Lovick wrote:
> > On Fri, 24 May 2002, Karl Schaffarczyk wrote:
> > >
> > > Please excuse my ignorance of such matters:
> > > 
> > > does anyone know of a sensible way to attach an aerial to an Apple
> > > airport?
> > 
> > I am not 100% sure with the Airport 2 basestation, but with the original
> > Airport basestation, it's just a matter of cracking it open and
> > attaching a suitable tail to the Orinoco card inside.
> > 
> > You can ether cut through the casing, or run the tail out of one of the
> > holes in the bottom (well, feed it into there first).
> > 
> > Speaking of Airport's, had anyone heard that if you add an older
> > enterasys/cabletron/orinoco 40 bit card into the Airport 2 Basestation's
> > PC Card slot, it can do a flash upgrade to give them 128 bit WEP?
> 
> the card in the airport and airport 2 are apple airport cards, so
> they look like pcmcia cards but are subtly different, thus I would
> be surprised if a normal pcmcia card works in the airport.

Are you sure that was the case in all models? I pulled apart an Airport
basestation around 12 to 18 months ago, and it actually had a Lucent
branded card inside.

Regards

Jamie

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