Re: Airport Extreme Cards and Airbears

Early on, we had a lot of trouble with Airport Extreme cards and not
just with AirBears but with the EECS wireless infrastructure which runs
on a different platform than most of AirBears. Getting the latest
drivers for those cards may help you. Very early versions of the driver
 would not work for us. We finally had to really apply pressure to our
infrastructure vendor to get our equipment to work well with those
cards. Every vendor has their own take on how to interpret standards and
Apple in no different when it comes to 802.11.
Fred

Beth Muramoto wrote:

> I didn't know who to email about this in CNS so forgive this post if
> it should go elsewhere. If anyone knows who I should direct this,
> please let me know, but another reason for posting this is to find out
> if others are experiencing the same problem.
>
> We've had 3 iBooks with the Airport Extreme card both pre-installed
> and manually installed where they were not able see Airbears in Tolman
> Hall. We even tested on the second floor where there are 2 antennas
> (one in 2515 and one in the Ed-Psych Library) and Airbears was not
> detected. On one of the iBooks, we did test the card by creating a
> network on an iMac that we have in a lab here that has an older
> Airport card and was connecting wirelessly. That iMac was detected by
> the iBook. We also put the laptop on the same table that the iMac
> with the older Airport card was on and there was no signal to the
> iBook, but the iMac was detecting both Airbears and another wireless
> network.
>
> Does anyone know if there is a compatibility/connectivity issue with
> the Airport Extreme cards and Airbears? Or has anyone experienced
> similar problems as well?
>
> Any suggestions are welcome and appreciated.
>
> Beth

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