Next message: Darryl Lee: "Re: [WinMac] Sysco Aeronet and Apple Airport"
At 11:04 AM 8/21/2001 -0400, KRushing wrote:
>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.
Can you elaborate on what does and does not work from Macs using AirPort
cards? Can you get to web pages hosted in the library? Hosted elsewhere on
campus? Hosted outside the campus? Make sure you can get to the same pages
from a wireless PC and from the same Mac using a wired connection. Choose
test pages which people might actually use like Yahoo! or cnn.com. Test the
other supported Internet tasks, such as using SSH or a POP client, also
testing these from a wireless PC
If you can "access some parts of the World-Wide-Web" from an AirPort
equipped Mac, I suspect the problem is not with communication between the
AirPort card and Cisco access point. 802.11b networking is a lot like wired
Ethernet networking, problems at that layer are usually all or nothing
(except when signal strength is poor).
Other points which could be a source of problems are a DHCP server, Network
Address Translation (NAT) server, or a proxy server.
>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.
Are they also requiring all PC clients to use only Cisco cards or are they
being hypocritical?
>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.)
Lucent's wireless tech is spinning off as Agere Systems so they should not
be encumbered by Lucent's problems.
<http://www.lucent.com/micro/companyoverview.html>
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