[PLUG] Vaguely from /.: Dell access point runs Linux

gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net> · Mon, 9 Jun 2003 12:08:56 -0400

This stems from some hopeless /. wanking about GPL violations that
refers to an LKML thread about same, which includes this informative
post:

  http://lkml.org/archive/2003/6/8/76/index.html

Summary: "Ran into Dell selling an AP using Linux, told them, they
gladly provided the source."

That access point is this:

  http://tinyurl.com/ds6i

For those not quite keeping up, this means that you can get that AP,
and then rebuild the kernel to support whatever you'd like. Like say
(far out) a hacked-on gigabit Ethernet card for the wired port or
(quite reasonable) IPv6+IPsec replacing WEP in "hardware". Getting
that $80 access point is WAY cheaper than pressing an extra PC
running Linux into service with a PCI wireless ethernet card (the
wifi card alone could be more expensive than this AP).

Can't quite tell from the press photos whether or not this one has a
replaceable antenna. But the hopeless GPL wanking's about a similar
product from Linksys which I believe does have a replaceable antenna,
so if the outcome there is equally amicable...

-- 
gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net