All, Can I get your experienced recommendation about which LEAF to might work best for a very specific application?
I am with an ISP in Los Angeles and we have rolled out 802.11b towers in several cities where distance prohibits extending DSL. We now need equipment to put out at our customers (end-user) home or business. This equipment would have an Orinoco card with antenna attached that faces the tower. The Orinoco is the WAN interface for the customer router. Th ethernet faces their LAN. So far we have been using Win98 computers with WinRoutePro and Orinoco PCI-->PCMCIA converters. These have been somewhat unreliable. What is the best LEAF for this purpose? The WISP seems like it's designed for base stations and not customer premises equipment. Also, is it necessary to follow the steps outlined by Richard Dale below to get an Orinoco card working with Bering LEAF still? At 12:05 PM -0700 10/14/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Message: 11 >From: "Richard Dale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [leaf-user] Bering & pcmcia_orinoco.lrp - Orinoco_cs updated versions? >Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 22:32:22 +0800 > >A followup & solution. > >It seems that the orinoco v0.09b drivers aren't very good. > >I am now running the 0.13beta1 drivers and they're no longer spitting up the >various errors and timeouts I was having before. > >Here's how I did it: >0. Original BERING RC3 is using the pcmcia_orinoco.lrp package as >referenced by JN's pages. >1. Used Brad Fritz' scripts (slightly hacked) to download the 2.4.18 >kernel and patches http://fritzfam.com/brad/leaftmp/ >2. Downloaded the pcmcia-cs 3.1.33 source from >http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ >3. Downloaded the latest orinoco drivers from >http://www.ozlabs.com/people/dgibson/dldwd/ >4. Extracted pcmcia-cs >5. Copied the orinoco source into the wireless directory inside the >pcmcia-cs tree >6. ./Confiugre (making sure the kernel source pointed to the downloaded >2.4.18 kernel source above) >7. Make >8. Replace all of the modules inside /lib/modules/pcmcia with the >recently compiled modules >9. Stopped and started the pcmcia service (/etc/init.d/pcmcia restart) >and made sure things came up properly (dmesg) >10. Added the newly replaced modules to /var/lib/lrpkg/pcmcia.local file, >so I could make a local backup (I use a CD-based boot, with configuration on >floppy) >11. Reboot for good luck to make sure everything was fine. > >Thanks again to Brad Fritz for his detailed respons and assistance. > >Cheers, >Richard. -- Regards. Tony Cappelli L A Bridge Internet & DSL <http://www.LABridge.com/> Read and post reviews at: <http://www.dslreports.com/comments/329> ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ApacheCon, November 18-21 in Las Vegas (supported by COMDEX), the only Apache event to be fully supported by the ASF. http://www.apachecon.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
