Re: D-Link, Wireless and Debian
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 02:47:41PM -0700, mcclosk@ling.ucsc.edu wrote:
[...]
> My initial difficulty was that the D-Link DWL900 access point can be
> configured only with Windows tools and utilities. I have no access to
> any Windows machines, so I wasn't able to do any configuration at all
> on that end. (There is actually a sourceforge project to let you do
> this in Linux: http://sourceforge.net/projects/wap11gui, but I
> haven't managed to get it compiled.)
[...]
The ap-utils package in sid has a curses based configurator:
$ apt-cache show ap-utils
Package: ap-utils
Priority: optional
Section: net
Installed-Size: 596
Maintainer: Robert McQueen <robot101@debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 1.0.4-1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.5-13), libncurses5 (>= 5.2.20020112a-1)
Filename: pool/main/a/ap-utils/ap-utils_1.0.4-1_i386.deb
Size: 226040
MD5sum: 6ac590595c440bf561f845aec91a5b99
Description: Access Point SNMP Utils for Linux
A set of utilities for remotely administrating a variety of wireless
access points via SNMP. Includes the following binaries:
* ap-atmel - to config and get stats from an Atmel-chipset based AP
* ap-nwn - to config and get stats from devices that support MIB-II,
IEEE 802.11 MIB and NWN DOT11EXT MIB
* ap-mrtg - to get stats from an AP and return them in MRTG parsable
format
* ap-trapd - to receive, parse and log trap messages from an AP
.
Access points supported include Global Sun ProWave GL2411AP, Compex
WavePort WP11, Linksys WAP11, SMC MC2655W, Netgear ME102, Edimax WLAN
Access Point, D-Link DWL 900AP and Eumitcom WA3001A. Others based on
Atmel chipsets or supporting MIB-II, IEEE 802.11 MIB and NWN DOT11EXT
MIB should also work.
HTH
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