[Chixla] Next meeting's presentation

[Jeff Carlson]

Stephen N. Carter wrote:
> I haven't tried one of the Unix variations running on Mac to see if the
> implementation of WiFi is easy there as well as with the Mac OS.
> 
> Anyone try that?

Sorry I'm so far behind in my email.  Changing jobs and SCALE kinda 
overwhelmed me.
My G4 14" iBook runs Fedora about 99% of the time, if not more.
In spite of its Unix underpinnings, I do find OS X is a little hard to 
deal with from time to time.  For instance, I use static IPs at home, 
but when I go out, I probably need DHCP.  The lack of a simple dhclient 
command is quite annoying, as I have to do it all through the GUI.  Then 
when I get home I have to set everything back again.
The G4 iBook uses that stupid Broadcom 802.11g Airport Extreme chip that 
doesn't work in Linux (I know a driver is being developed but last I 
heard it works with G networks only, not B), so I got a Netgear MA111 
USB adapter that works great and even kismet runs fine with it.
I do have to rebuild the wlan-ng driver for each kernel upgrade, but 
that's pretty trivial for me.  As far as wireless networking with this 
machine, it's not too bad.  Every once in a while I run into some quirky 
network that I can't figure out, and to be honest, last time it 
happened, OS X and the Airport Extreme didn't do any better.  Otherwise 
it works pretty well.  At home and most coffee shops it is just fine.