Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 14:58:28 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@whistle.com> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Atsushi Onoe <onoe@sm.sony.co.jp>, shigeru@iij.ad.jp, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: patch for wi driver Message-ID: <200012122258.OAA79115@whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <20001212093716.A20242@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> from Brooks Davis at "Dec 12, 2000 09:37:16 am"
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Brooks Davis writes: | On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 12:42:27AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: | > It has two antennas. Or at least two connectors that look like | > antenna connectors. This is the same as some of the aironet cards | > that I've seen (but not the same as the cisco 342 that I have). The | > an driver supports two antennas so this is suggestive. | | The Cisco cards have two antennas inside that thing. Their diversity | support is one of the major advertised features. Actually, the Cisco | cards look exactly like the older Aironet cards once you attach the | standard antenna to the old ones so I suspect it's exactly the same except | that they bonded the antenna on to cut costs. The PCI cards still have Well it's a little different. The old version had connectors and light pipes. I flipped mine over so I could slide another card on top. The newer ones has the PCB going all the way through the whole thing with leds in the part that sticks out. (I know this since my wife dropped her laptop and on the part that sticks out got caught and bent a little. Enough to see inside not enough to render it dead). | the version without an antenna and they attach a single antenna to the | back of the card via a cable. There is actually a punched hole on the | back for a second antenna, but I'm pretty sure you must get a firmware | upgrade to make it work. I just ordered one to play with to investigate the firmware issue on those versus the PCMCIA version in which there is beginning an effort to write a FreeBSD firmware downloaded for it. Doug A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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