From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Dec 28 23:43:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2015A37B416 for ; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 23:43:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fBT7pWF20316; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 23:51:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200112290751.fBT7pWF20316@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Andrew Houghton Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: USB/orinoco wireless driver? In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 28 Dec 2001 23:38:01 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 23:51:32 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Wondering if anyone is working on a driver for the USB WaveLan/Orinoco > network hardware. I'd be happy to help with this as much as I can (which is > pretty much limited to testing).. at the moment I have an expensive > paperweight when I boot into FreeBSD. :/ I don't know of anyone that's dissected a unit yet (and nobody pays me to do it anymore, *sniff*), but I would be inclined to guess that you're SOL. It probably uses a proprietary interface that's not documented anywhere; check for any Linux drivers for a good indication. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message