[Chixla] Next meeting's presentation

[Michelle Klein-Hass]

On Friday 17 February 2006 10:23 pm, Stephen N. Carter wrote:
> Appropriate article on wireless networking in Linux, particularly MadWiFi,
> on page 54 of the Feb. Linux Format. Expensive British publication, good to
> read over coffee in your favorite Barnes and Noble or the like.
>
> Reading the article makes a person want to go out and get a Mac....

I hate to say this, but the WiFi implementation in Mac OS X *is* smooth. I 
have a Clamshell iBook, one of the first ones, and it is a breeze to run on 
WiFi with it. That big antenna makes it able to pull in signals that confound 
a PCMCIA Orinoco wireless card. Yes, the AirPort actually *is* an Orinoco, of 
course, but even with those external Orinoco antennas (I have one with an 
Avaya logo on it) that solution doesn't match the power of the antenna that 
is coiled around the LCD screen in a Clamshell.
Modern iBooks and PowerBooks and the MacBookPro use an 802.11g solution that 
isn't very friendly to Linux. However, if you stick with Mac OS X it's super. 
Just make sure you don't leave home without your power adapter, because it 
sucks juice like there's no tomorrow.
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Michelle Klein-Hass
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