converting a PCI wireless card into an AP

03-29-2002

OK I just got into the world of wireless networking about 3 months ago and so this is still somewhat new to me...But doing some thinking last night I came up with an idea and was wondering if this is possable....If one was to take a PCI to PCMCIA addapter and put in say a Orinoco Gold PCMCIA card and place these into say a unix/win2k server. Could one effectively make an AP this way...I've noticed that most if not all are some way or another this kinda device...I first stumbled on this w/ the apple airport...all this device really is, is a Lucent Orinoco PCMCIA card w/ a powersupply and controller...I've noticed that others do this very same thing...So I guess my question is in final...Is this possable to take a said card and place it into a server w/ an adapter and thus turn it into an AP...If so what issues would be involved with doing this kind of conversion and are there any informative site in relation to this kinda setup?

03-29-2002

Search through here, its been discussed before. Specifically look for "ORiNOCO" & "registry". There's a hack for it. Stay away from amps, you're asking
for trouble unless you know the limits. Search for "amps". There are several threads discussing that, too.

Cheers,
Thorn

03-29-2002

Well I'm not havein any luck finding any threads related to this subject...

03-29-2002

This is the only one I remember seeing:
http://forums.netstumbler.com/showthread.php?threadid=592

be warned that it is not fully functional

03-29-2002

... of the threads I was thinkning of, but I thought there was at least one other. Perhaps something about some software (Cisco? 3Com?) that made the AP functions enabled on standard PC.

Cheers,
Thorn

03-29-2002	#1 (permalink)
Posts: n/a	converting a PCI wireless card into an AP OK I just got into the world of wireless networking about 3 months ago and so this is still somewhat new to me...But doing some thinking last night I came up with an idea and was wondering if this is possable....If one was to take a PCI to PCMCIA addapter and put in say a Orinoco Gold PCMCIA card and place these into say a unix/win2k server. Could one effectively make an AP this way...I've noticed that most if not all are some way or another this kinda device...I first stumbled on this w/ the apple airport...all this device really is, is a Lucent Orinoco PCMCIA card w/ a powersupply and controller...I've noticed that others do this very same thing...So I guess my question is in final...Is this possable to take a said card and place it into a server w/ an adapter and thus turn it into an AP...If so what issues would be involved with doing this kind of conversion and are there any informative site in relation to this kinda setup?

03-29-2002	#4 (permalink)
Posts: n/a	false "AP" mode This is the only one I remember seeing: http://forums.netstumbler.com/showthread.php?threadid=592 be warned that it is not fully functional

03-29-2002	#5 (permalink)
Posts: n/a	That's one... ... of the threads I was thinkning of, but I thought there was at least one other. Perhaps something about some software (Cisco? 3Com?) that made the AP functions enabled on standard PC. Cheers, Thorn

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03-29-2002	#2 (permalink)
Posts: n/a	Search through here, its been discussed before. Specifically look for "ORiNOCO" & "registry". There's a hack for it. Stay away from amps, you're asking for trouble unless you know the limits. Search for "amps". There are several threads discussing that, too. Cheers, Thorn

03-29-2002	#3 (permalink)
Posts: n/a	Well I'm not havein any luck finding any threads related to this subject...