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[Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>]

on Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 08:34:05PM -0400, Ian Meyer wrote:
> so you modded the basestation, eh? there was a little cap on the card 
> as well, and i couldnt tell what kind if connection was there, 
> though...

Yeah, I actually did it to both the older, Graphite model, and the new
Snow BS I got later. I just notched the side out of the first one, to 
snake the cable through, but did a neater job with the Snow BS and the
cable comes out through the same panel as the power/ether/modem/etc.

> On Monday, July 14, 2003, at 20:29, Steven Champeon wrote:
> 
> >Of course, these are now sold by Agere, not Lucent, so YMMV.
> 
> Eh? the cards, the basestation cards? im lost with this one.

Yeah, the cards (which were sold as Orinoco for a while) and the
RE antenna are now sold by Agere.
 
> So do the basestations basically have a PC card inside them?

Yeah, the graphite is a little 486 PC, basically, with a modem card,
ethernet, and a PC card slot with a Lucent Silver wireless PC card
plugged into it. Do you have a Snow, or Graphite? The Graphite has a
cheap metallized cardboard housing, held together with clips; the Snow
has a metal (aluminum?) case. It also has a place where a cable can be
attached to the card, by detaching the built-in dipole antenna, so I've
never taken the metal housing apart to see what sort of card it uses.

More info here:

 http://www.vonwentzel.net/ABS/

Oh, OK, it uses an official Apple Airport card (quel surprise):

 http://www.vonwentzel.net/ABS/Snow/

I had to repair the Graphite BS we use at the office, to replace a
couple of bad capacitors, following the instructions here:

 http://www.vonwentzel.net/ABS/Repair/

I haven't had to repair the Graphite I have here; maybe they used
better capacitors in this one; I dunno. I know the one at work is in
a much hotter room, so the heat may have shortened its life.

Or, you could just make it all spooky and transparent:

 http://colin.editthispage.com/clearAirportBaseStation

Don't miss Alan Clegg's 802.11 mapping project:

 http://alan.clegg.com/802/

It's pretty out of date, tho.

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