Airport aerials

[Bob Edwards]

Jamie Lovick wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
Actually, the original Airport base station has a Lucent/Orinoco card in it.
The newer Airport 2 base station has the Airport card.

Cheers,

Bob Edwards.