From: Greg Small (gts@uclink.berkeley.edu)
Date: Mon Sep 10 2001 - 16:20:06 PDT
Kin,
I have a Dell Latitude C800. This unit claims to have a built-in antenna.
Will the Lucent card use that antenna? Would the built-in antenna be an
advantage?
Do I need a Dell "TrueMobile" card to use the built-in antenna? Is the
"TrueMobile" card compatible with the planned UCB wireless test?
greg small
At 03:17 PM 9/10/2001 -0700, Kin S. Jung wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>The Scholar's Workstation, U.C. Berkeley's Campus Computer Store
><http://www.tsw.berkeley.edu> will be offering Wi-Fi certified Lucent
>Orinoco Gold & Silver 802.11b Wireless cards (As Adi points out below, these
>cards are also referred to as Wavelan/Avaya Orinoco products). The wireless
>cards TSW will offer will be compatible with U.C. Berkeley's Wireless Task
>Force recommendations for the campus' forthcoming Wireless Network being
>operated by Communications & Network Services. For details visit:
><http://istpub.berkeley.edu:4201/bcc/Fall2001/news.wirelesslan.html>
>
>As several people have pointed out, the cards have been difficult to acquire
>over the last few month's; however, according to our distributor, TSW should
>have limited numbers available and in-stock later this week. As soon as we
>receive our first shipment, I will send out a note to this group letting
>everyone know about pricing, part numbers, and availability.
>
>Regards,
>Kin
>
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>
> > From: "R.P. Aditya" <aditya@ack.berkeley.edu>
> > Reply-To: "R.P. Aditya" <aditya@ack.berkeley.edu>
> > Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 13:33:33 -0700
> > To: "Tom O'Brien" <Tomo@uclink4.berkeley.edu>
> > Cc: micronet-list@uclink4.berkeley.edu
> > Subject: Re: [Micronet] 802.11b PC Card recommendations?
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Most of the 802.11b cards on the market are _pretty_ good. The more
> expensive
> > ones tend to have slightly better antennas. I would recommend the
> > Wavelan/Lucent/Avaya Silver cards (unless you are unwisely relying on WEP).
> > They seem to have the most mature drivers on a variety of operating systems
> > (however they won't work under Mac OS X in those laptops that have a
> built-in
> > antenna). It looks like:
> >
> > http://www.lanstreet.com
> >
> > has them available and for a good price. I believe they also sell them in
> > larger quantity (ie. 10+) with a volume discount.
> >
> > That said, as you can see under the "Pilot Sites" section at:
> >
> > http://www.net.berkeley.edu/wireless/
> >
> > any WiFi certified card will work with the CNS wireless network on
> campus and
> > most likely with any other wireless networks you are likely to
> encounter. I've
> > had success with Dlink (antenna isn't as good) and Cisco cards as well.
> Since
> > I've only tried the cards under FreeBSD, I can't really comment on the
> > software that comes with any of the cards.
> >
> > Hope that helps,
> > Adi
> >
> > In message <p0510033cb7c2cb241772@[128.32.51.227]>, "Tom O'Brien" writes:
> >> Hi folks,
> >>
> >> We have a PC Laptop that we'd like to put an 802.11b card into -- any
> >> recommendations for brands to buy or avoid? I've heard wide ranging
> >> reports on functionality... Also info on where purchased (I've been
> >> looking for Lucent's card, but can't seem to find it) would be
> >> helpful!
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Tomo
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