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Dear All, I'm a frequent reader of these lists, and know that there are many wireless-specialists in here. Here's my query: Would it be possible to put up about 40 access points (net 4521 with 2 cards) in a building, serving about 150 - 180 clients (6 a piece max). Right now, the current cabling (IBM Cabling System) limits the speed to 10Mbps, so any improvement would be nice, but no requirement for all connections. I was thinking of 811a cards (or 811g, if already available) and m0n0wall software. For encryption, I would use the (already) installed VPN solution of watchguard on all PC's (to our firebox 1000). Each floor (5 in total) is about 60 by 12 meters. It's a concrete building, with wooden inner walls. Use of the clients is mainly AS/400 (telnet), MS exchange server, SMB filesharing of word and excel documents. No heavy load on the connections. Is this an alternative or is wireless only interesting for some surfing or web-applications? Thanks for ANY reply I can learn from! Joachim -----Original Message----- From: Soren Kristensen [mailto:soren at soekris dot com] Sent: dinsdag 10 juni 2003 12:56 To: Arent Kits van Heijningen[106016.3614] Cc: soekris dash tech at lists dot soekris dot com Subject: Re: [Soekris] Re: Need FreeBSD kernel debugging help.... Hi Arent, First, I have a little more info: I can boot an old OpenBSD 2.9 image just fine, I had it laying around in my CF module pile.... Arent Kits van Heijningen[106016.3614] wrote: > At 2003/06/09 11:37:35 Soren Kristensen wrote: soren> Hi Everybody, > soren> soren> I've been working like a madman on bringing up the > net4801, but are soren> stalled right now, and need help for > debugging with FreeBSD.... > > Have a look at http://www.openbrick.org ( very similar hardware ) and > http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios ( have > encountered similar issues with booting FreeBSD on Geode-based boards > ) We ( that's Arie Bikker and me ) have FreeBSD up on an OpenBrick > and it boots and runs fine ( using the stock BIOS ) You should give > the Linuxbios project a serious shot- if you cannot get by with a > standard BIOS ( e.g because you need pre-boot access from/to the > serial port ) and do a deep search on its list archives Linuxbios is > a project run by the Los Alamos National Laboratory under the > auspices of Mr Ron Minnich <rminnich at lanl dot gov> I think I located that posting about the LinuxBIOS+FreeBSD problem.... It seems to be about the missing realmode int's, so it's not the same problem that I'm fighting. The LinuxBIOS do not have the std PC-AT stuff (I do know LinuxBIOS and bochs) and also don't have all the special embedded functionality, so it's not very usefull for me.... And I'm also not really into using GPL code for commercial products. My BIOS is otherwise just fine, it's probably a CPU/Chipset programming issue, not the core BIOS itself. Regards, Soren _____________________________________________________________________ Soekris Engineering, technical discussion mailing list [un]subscribe: http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech ----------------------------------------------- MISSION STATEMENT ----------------------------------------------- Oce enables its customers to manage their documents efficiently and effectively by offering innovative print and document management products and services for professional environments. ----------------------------------------------- DISCLAIMER ----------------------------------------------- This e-mail message and any attachment are intended for the sole use of the recipient(s) named above and may contain information which is confidential and/or protected by intellectual property rights. Any use of the information contained herein (including, but not limited to, total or partial reproduction, communication or distribution in any form) by other persons than the designated recipient(s) is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender either by telephone (0032-2-729.48.11) or by e-mail and delete the material from any computer. Oce-Belgium/Oce-Interservices is nor responsible for the correct and complete transfer of the contents of the sent e-mail, neither for the receipt on due time. This e-mail message does not bring about a contractual obligation for Oce-Belgium/Oce-Interservices. Thank you for your cooperation. For further information about Oce-Belgium/Oce-Interservices please see our website at www.oce.be ----------------------------------------------- |