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Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 16:42:20 -0800
To: Sam Wun <swun@eSec.com.au>
From: Ross Finlayson <finlayson@live.com>
Subject: Re: WaveLAN card on Free/Open/NetBSD?
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At 04:33 PM 11/23/00, Sam Wun wrote:
>I heard that the Lucent WaveLAN card is not working very well in the
>FreeBSD kernel.

You heard incorrectly.  Lucent WaveLAN (now called "Orinoco") works just 
fine with BSD.

What *doesn't* work with FreeBSD (yet) is Lucent's PCI adaptor for their 
WaveLAN/Orinoco cards.  But if you have a PCMCIA slot (or an ISA slot), you 
should have no problems at all.

         Ross.



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