Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 10:51:07 -0700 From: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com> To: "Michael C. Wu" <keichii@peorth.iteration.net> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, gsutter@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCCARD-to-PCI bridge question Message-ID: <200006281751.KAA07252@mina.soco.agilent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 28 Jun 2000 09:59:02 CDT." <20000628095902.A61113@peorth.iteration.net>
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"Michael C. Wu" <keichii@peorth.iteration.net> wrote:
> Greg Sutter and I was just about to setup a wireless wavelan network,
> and I noticed that one needs a PCCARD to PCI/ISA bridge for using
> the wi0 driver. Doug White, Greg, and I could not find
> a satisfactory cheap but working bridge besides the one
> that Lucent makes. (which is very expensive)
[ Next time, search the archives. The WaveLan has been talked to death,
here. ]
You're confused. If you're using only laptops, you don't need
anything else besides the WaveLan PCMCIA cards (assuming free PCMCIA
slots). If you are using a desktop, you need a PCI or ISA PCMCIA
adapter card (plus a WaveLan PCMCIA card). Now, you may have other
requirements, that you have not mentioned, that may *require* you to get
something like the expensive Lucent Access Point, but one is not
*needed* (for home LANs, for example).
[ Note: the PCI PCMCIA adapter doesn't appear to currently work with
FreeBSD, and so you need to get the ISA adapter if you want something
working now. ]
For example, for a basic Home LAN, you only need:
* For each desktop: one Lucent PCMCIA ISA adapter (around US$65 or
less), and one Orinoco (WaveLan) 802.11 PCMCIA card (silver or gold).
You can use a desktop as a wireless-to-wired LAN gateway, or you can
get something like the Apple Airport or the (expensive) Lucent Access
Point.
* For each laptop with at least one free PCMCIA slot: one Orinoco
(WaveLan) 802.11 PCMCIA card (silver or gold).
For more information on using the WaveLan with home LANs, see:
ftp://ftp.sonic.net/pub/users/darrylo/freebsd/wavelan
(Note that this document is a work-in-progress, is not yet finished, and
may have typos and other bits of incorrect information.)
--
Darryl Okahata
darrylo@soco.agilent.com
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