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>Kit-
I have made the Apple Airport cards work with Lucent Orinoco Access Points
and Residential Gateways, it is confusing, but possible. I had to contact
Lucent tech support and get some documentation from them. The Apple cards
are standard 802.11 cards, but the software that Apple provides for
configuring the cards doesn't use standard 802.11 terminology for
describing the different settings. I know that this isn't a lot of help,
but I could probably make it work if I had the Cisco access point and a
Powerbook with an AirPort card in front of me. The Cisco cards are Mac
compatible, however, and Cisco's roaming capabilities (moving from access
point to access point) are excellent in an enterprise environment.
-Ari Weinstein
>Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 11:04:14 -0400
>To: winmac@iffy.com
>From: KRushing <krushing@cecasun.utc.edu>
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>Subject: Sysco Aeronet and Apple Airport
>
>From: Kit <krushing@cecasun.utc.edu>
>----------------------------
>
>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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