From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Jul 8 2:22:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (mta07-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 443F837B401; Sun, 8 Jul 2001 02:22:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmlb@dmlb.org) Received: from dmlb.org ([62.253.135.228]) by mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20010708092222.GHQP283.mta07-svc.ntlworld.com@dmlb.org>; Sun, 8 Jul 2001 10:22:22 +0100 Received: from dmlb by dmlb.org with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 15JAli-0000Et-00; Sun, 08 Jul 2001 10:22:22 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200107080015.f680FgJ73988@harmony.village.org> Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2001 10:22:21 +0100 (BST) From: Duncan Barclay To: Warner Losh Subject: Re: Nokia C110 WLAN Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd_mail@yahoo.com, Tomi.Vainio@Sun.COM, Mike Smith 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 On 08-Jul-01 Warner Losh wrote: > In message <200107080023.f680NJN00575@mass.dis.org> Mike Smith writes: >: The issue here is the MAC; from reading the above, I gather Nokia have >: their own MAC/firmware interface, which is not the standard PRISM one. > > Why do people have to do such stupid things as have been done with the > various 802.11b cards.... Because they see a market opportunity? Nokia bought a company in Cambridge, UK a while ago that has been developing an 802.11 MAC and firmware since the early 1990's. At that time (and to be honest, even now) there are only one or two 802.11b RF solutions available with the lion's share of the market going to Intersil and Philips (as used in the newer Orinico cards). This is why people like TI and Atmel have developed their own MACs that can work with Prism II radios. Think of how many vendors of Ethernet MACs there are. NE2000 clone or a DEC Tuplip clone? > Warner Duncan --- ________________________________________________________________________ Duncan Barclay | God smiles upon the little children, dmlb@dmlb.org | the alcoholics, and the permanently stoned. dmlb@freebsd.org| Steven King To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message