From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 15 19:40:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 469CD37B404 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 19:40:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B071B43E9C for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 19:40:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 58BC1816C4; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 12:10:16 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 12:10:16 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Alex Wilkinson Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 802.11a Question (fwd) Message-ID: <20021016024016.GA60369@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20021015093645.B87841-100000@squirm.dsto.defence.gov.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021015093645.B87841-100000@squirm.dsto.defence.gov.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 15 October 2002 at 9:36:56 +0930, Alex Wilkinson wrote: > Hi all, To update a reply I made on this subject in a different mailing list, > Can anyone recommend a Wireless Access Point and Wireless Access > Cards that will work with FreeBSD ? No. > Do all wireless cards these days comply with both the 802.11a and > 802.11b specs ? No. As far as I know, there is no 802.11a support for any free operating system. The manufacturers are particularly reticent to make their code available, at least because of regulatory concerns: if you have the source, you can convert the device to operate outside the allowed frequency range. The FreeBSD core team has recently approved import of binary modules for the low-level control of these devices, but the import itself hasn't happened yet. There's a very good chance that it will take a lot longer for the GPL community to accept this restriction. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message