Re: Airport Extreme Cards and Airbears

Thanks, Fred. We did apply updates to see if they would help on the
on iBook we were testing with and it didn't seem to help, but maybe
we missed one.

At 2:59 PM -0700 10/13/04, Fred Archibald wrote:
>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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