General DNS questions

[Brad Knowles]

At 11:55 AM -0600 5/22/01, Matt Simerson wrote:

>  BTW: MacOS X rocks.

	Yet another complaint of mine -- there is no MacOS X support for 
Lucent/Agere WaveLAN/Orinoco cards (so far as I know), nor is there 
any support for Farallon, or any other vendor of 802.11b cards.  The 
only support available is for Apple AirPort cards, which obviously 
only work in the most recent Macs, and won't play nice if everyone 
else on the network has Lucent/Agere WaveLAN/Orinoco Gold cards, 
unless you turn off all encryption.

	Lucent/Agere seems to think that this is the fault of Apple, and 
I feel that there is some truth to this -- after all, the Apple 
AirPort card is really just a Lucent/Agere WaveLAN/Orinoco Silver 
card with the external antenna removed.  Moreover, Apple provides 
support for Lucent/Agere WaveLAN/Orinoco cards under MacOS 9 as 
"AirPort PC Cards", instead of requiring you (or allowing you) to use 
the previously provided driver from Lucent/Agere (for MacOS 8).


	But now we're *REALLY* getting off-topic for this mailing list.  ;-)

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

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