Subject: Re: What 802.11 wireless gear do you recommend?
To: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
From: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 02/06/2001 16:11:20
At 10:15 PM -0500 2/4/01, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>In message <v6g0ht7sal.fsf@kechara.flame.org>, Michael Graff writes:
> >cgd@netbsd.org (Chris G. Demetriou) writes:
> >
> >> My understanding is that the underlying hardware in the Airport and
> >> RG-1000 is the same.  Lucent hardware is obviously the strong favorite
> >> in the responses I got -- there were some mentions of other gear, but
> >> in fact little experience with things other than those above.
> >
> >Rumor has it you cannot use any of the existing software to put the
> >longer encryption key into a gold card, should you replace the one
> >in the RG-1000 with one.
>
>I haven't taken mine apart yet -- is there an actual PCMCIA card inside?

The AirPort does.  There are photos on the web somewhere with 
instructions for how to upgrade to the export encryption.


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