FreeBase
Free Windows software to configure 
the Apple AirPort Base Station

written by Rop Gonggrijp

 

  

At US$299, the Apple AirPort Base Station is the cheapest wireless Access Point that complies with the 802.11b wireless networking standard. It comes with an Ethernet port, a V.90 modem and it includes the WaveLan card. Unfortunately, it only comes with configuration software for the Apple Macintosh Operating System.

FreeBase was written to allow Windows users to configure the Base Station, and to allow replacing the WaveLan card with a 'WaveLan/Orinoco Gold' card so users can have strong encryption.

You're looking at what was once scheduled to be a quick "one week project" .

 

If you're in a hurry and just want to configure your Base Station:

  1. Click here to download the FreeBase installer
  2. Run the .exe
  3. Read the very short readme.txt
  4. And away you go.

FreeBase is free software released under the GNU General Public License, and comes with absolutely no warranties of any kind. FreeBase is written in Visual Basic, and the source code is freely available.

 

Those with a little bit more time might want to:


      
      
Here's some links to other pages about the Apple 
      AirPort Base Station

      
      
 

      
      
Thanks and acknowledgements (in no particular 
      order):

      
      

        

          

          

            
            

              
             
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              SourceForge is a true 
                one-stop-shop for Open Source software 
                development. 
SourceForge is Very, Very, Very, Very 
                Cool.

      
      

        

          
For designing a very cool and very cheap 
          802.11b Access Point.

      
      

        

          
For selling it so cheap, knowing people 
          would need their computers to configure 
      it.

      
      

        

          
For doing much of the same research. I know 
          what these people endured.

      
    
        
  • Frank Rieger: 

      

        

          
"Hey, just buy one of these Apple Base 
          Stations. I can configure it for you with my Mac. And besides: 
          configuration is over SNMP, so there's plenty of programs out there to 
          configure it with."

      
    
        
  • Steini 
        
  • C. 
        
  • Hans Huebner 
        
  • Pluto 
        
  • Andreas Bogk 
        
  • Denis 
        
  • everyone else at the CCC Berlin Dienstagsrunde
          

        
  • Carla van Rijsbergen 
        
  • Cor Bosman 
        
  • Dustin Norman 
        
  • Marcel van der Peijl 
        
  • Barry Wels 
        
  • Stephanie Wehner 
        
  • Lucky Green 
        
  • Marten Hoekstra 
        
  • Paul Wouters 
        
  • Maurice Wessling 
        
  • Sonja 
        
  • Zenon Panoussis 
        
  • Itsme 
        
  • all other Hippies From Hell