From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Oct 1 0: 8:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6F6B37B401 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 00:08:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1762543E6A for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 00:08:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g9178Gpk028557; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 01:08:17 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 01:08:04 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20021001.010804.105105030.imp@bsdimp.com> To: bms@spc.org Cc: scott.mitchell@mail.com, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any opinions on 'Sparklan' WiFi cards? From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <20020930162959.GS26352@spc.org> References: <20020930172333.A8623@fishballoon.dyndns.org> <20020930162959.GS26352@spc.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.2 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message: <20020930162959.GS26352@spc.org> Bruce M Simpson writes: : On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 05:23:33PM +0100, Scott Mitchell wrote: : [snip] : > They're pretty cheap -- =A356 for the PCCard and =A368 for the PCI = from : > http://www.scan.co.uk/, so maybe worth a go if they're not complete= : > rubbish. : = : Be aware that PC World are currently selling the Sitecom PCMCIA-to-PC= I : bridge adapters for 25 UKP or so on Tottenham Court Road, London. : = : These have the Ricoh RL5C475 bridge chip and appear to have no other = logic, : so it may be safe to assume that they're not locked to any specific b= rand : of 802.11 card (or PCMCIA device for that matter). I haven't bought o= ne yet, : though, so I can't confirm this, but I did get a good look at one in = the : anti-static wrapping inside the box. The Ricoh '475 based pci cards are in my testbed, and are known to work. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message