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[Ian Meyer <ianmeyer AT mac.com>]

i just have the card, no base station (yet). anyone have a used one?

thanks
ian


On Monday, July 14, 2003, at 20:51, Steven Champeon wrote:

> 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 It's pretty out of date, tho.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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