I'm old. I remember having to copy source code manually from the pages of a book or magazine into a text editor for use in my projects. I've always been a fair typist but the transcription of the source code from text format to electronic format still consumed a great amount of time. Authors in the old days knew that some of their "one-finger" typist customers would never get the source code copied into a text editor for compilation. So, to solve the problem for the "one-finger" types, the author would sell the source code on a diskette. Well, I'm going to do that one better. At no additional charge, the CD-ROM that accompanies this book contains the complete set of C source for the AirDrop-P and AirDrop-A modules described within the pages of this book.

To prevent you from having to lug the book around on your workbench, I've also included a full set of printable AirDrop-A and AirDrop-P schematic diagrams in PDF format. For those of you that want to dig a bit deeper into what makes 802.11b NICs work, there's a group of data sheets I collected from here and there on the CD-ROM too.

I figure since you have laid out your hard-earned money for this book, you deserve access to the EDTP AirDrop FTP site. So, I've included the AirDrop FTP site login and password on the CD-ROM. I've also provided the AirDrop-A User Group information for those of you that wish to join the...