From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Jun 28 10:51:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from palrel1.hp.com (palrel1.hp.com [156.153.255.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 513D537BF92; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 10:51:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from darrylo@soco.agilent.com) Received: from mina.soco.agilent.com (mina.soco.agilent.com [141.121.54.157]) by palrel1.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E045D7A; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 10:51:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mina.soco.agilent.com (darrylo@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mina.soco.agilent.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18979)/8.9.3 SMKit7.0) with ESMTP id KAA07252; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 10:51:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200006281751.KAA07252@mina.soco.agilent.com> To: "Michael C. Wu" Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, gsutter@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCCARD-to-PCI bridge question Reply-To: Darryl Okahata In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 28 Jun 2000 09:59:02 CDT." <20000628095902.A61113@peorth.iteration.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 1.5) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 10:51:07 -0700 From: Darryl Okahata Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Michael C. Wu" 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 DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Agilent Technologies, or of the little green men that have been following him all day. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message