From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Aug 28 1:24:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BC1314CAB for ; Sat, 28 Aug 1999 01:24:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@airnet.net) Received: from airnet.net (tc14-216-180-35-51.dialup.HiWAAY.net [216.180.35.51] (may be forged)) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id DAA04056; Sat, 28 Aug 1999 03:24:12 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <37C79C97.E33C91FD@airnet.net> Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 03:23:51 -0500 From: Kris Kirby Organization: Non Illegitemus Carborundum. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cheap link (was: Are the ethernet drivers time dependent?) References: <37C7952C.44F0BE51@airnet.net> <19990828174145.K13904@freebie.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey wrote: > > I'm going to be building at least three of these units, assuming I get > > the technical issues out of the way. So I'm looking at a cheap (hardware > > and software) way of getting data in and out of a PC with IP support and > > such. It just makes sense in my POV to use a NIC. It's capable of 10 > > Mbps and has most of the circuitry for preparing data for transmission > > on it. If you will, it's a ready to use data pump. > > I think the technical issues will be your problem. Well, yeah. :-) High speed FHSS equipment is rather complicated and requires come pretty accurate (TXCO?) signal sources. There are going to be problems. If I can't use a ethernet card, I've got a MCU in mind to do the job. -- Kris Kirby ------------------------------------------- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message