From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Oct 22 12:30:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA20789 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 12:30:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (SRI-56K-FR.mt.net [206.127.65.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA20784 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 12:30:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA02613; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 13:30:21 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA11138; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 13:30:19 -0600 (MDT) Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 13:30:19 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199710221930.NAA11138@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Mike O'Brien" Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Do we have any wireless support? In-Reply-To: <199710221755.KAA00726@anpiel.csd> References: <199710221755.KAA00726@anpiel.csd> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > So, the question is: does FreeBSD support any wireless Ethernet > interfaces? Yes, the AT&T/NCR/Lucent WaveLAN stuff is supported, and works quite well I might add. > And if so, where did the information needed to write a > FreeBSD driver come from? I suspect the manufacturer gave out the information, but the folks who wrote the drivers would know more. Since there were a couple of different implementations, it seems that it must have not been that hard to get the info., but that's just speculation. Nate