From: Aron Roberts (aron@socrates.berkeley.edu)
Date: Mon Mar 19 2001 - 10:46:51 PST
A reminder: Our campus Apple representatives, Wyn Davies and Dave
Brounstein, will talk about and demonstrate Apple's AirPort wireless
local area networking products:
Date: *Tomorrow*, Tuesday, March 20, 2001
Time: 10:00 am to 12:00 noon
Location: 60 Barrows Hall
A representative of the campus's Wireless LAN Task Force will be
available to answer questions about connecting AirPort-equipped
devices -- and more generally, wireless LAN products based on the
IEEE's 802.11 Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS) standard -- to
the campus network.
More about Apple's AirPort products
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Apple's home page for its AirPort wireless products is at:
Apple's products work with a number of other vendors' wireless LAN
products, such as Intel-based laptops equipped with appropriate
802.11-based PC Card or PCI bus products. Apple's AirPort Base
Station and Client Card have also been certified by the Wireless
Ethernet Compatibility Alliance (Wi-FiTM) for interoperability with
certain other vendors' IEEE 802.11b products:
http://www.wi-fi.net/
http://www.wi-fi.net/certified_products.asp (list of certified products)
Apple's recently-released AirPort 1.3 software (firmware) update
added "Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet [PPoE] and DHCP client
ID support, enhancements to Computer-to-Computer mode," and scripting
capabilities.
AirPort 1.3 update:
http://asu.info.apple.com/swupdates.nsf/artnum/n12021
MacFixIt Forum postings regarding the AirPort 1.3 Update:
http://www.macfixit.com/ultimate/Forum21/HTML/000039.html
MacInTouch Reader Reports regarding the AirPort 1.3 Update:
http://www.macintouch.com/wirelesslanreader2.html#mar07
Aron Roberts
Workstation Software Support Group
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