Next message: Perbix, Michael: "RE: [WinMac] Sysco Aeronet and Apple Airport"
From: Kit <krushing[at]cecasun.utc.edu>
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UT Chattanooga is installing a Sysco Wireless Aeronet system in the
university library. Long range plans call for the system to be
expanded from the library to other buildings on campus.
The two wireless systems, Sysco Aeronet and Apple Airport, seem to be
incompatible.
Our Macintosh computers with airport cards installed can see the
Sysco system. The Sysco system sees the airport card. However, only
limited communication between the two systems seems to be possible.
Airport card equipped Macs working through the Sysco wireless base
stations are able to access some parts of the World-Wide-Web via html
and browsers - however, the communication between the two
technologies is very limited and the transfer of e-mail and some
other complex web communications simply do not exist between Airport
and Aeronet.
After trying unsuccessfully several settings configurations within
the Sysco wireless base stations, the UTC technical folk on campus
are now saying that if Mac users wish to have wiresless access in the
library (and, I suppose, in the expanded wireless system proposed for
the future), the Mac users will either have to convert to Windows
operating system laptops with Sysco Aeronet cards installed or the
Mac users will have to replace their Apple internal airport cards
with PCMIA Aeronet cards.
My question to the Win-Mac list is this: does anyone on the list
have experience with attempting to make compatible Sysco Aeronet
wireless with Apple Airport?
(As an aside, one of our support people told me today that in his
opinion, "Lucent is going belly-up anyway, so Apple is going to have
to find another supplier for its Airport cards." I'm not sure what
that means for my problem, but it was an interesting observation,
nonetheless.)
--kit
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