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Date:      Wed, 06 May 1998 07:57:58 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Support for this IBM Wireless WAN card? 
Message-ID:  <199805061357.HAA11000@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 06 May 1998 00:10:34 PDT." <199805060710.AAA01754@antipodes.cdrom.com> 
References:  <199805060710.AAA01754@antipodes.cdrom.com>  

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In message <199805060710.AAA01754@antipodes.cdrom.com> Mike Smith writes:
: Just knowing the NIC isn't much help - you need to know how to talk to 
: the radio as well.  Actually, it sounds like the card might be a 
: Wavelan or similar - have you tried pointing the 'wlp' driver out of 
: the PAO kit at it?

Or similar.  I'll have to give the wlp driver a shot.  How is it
different than the wl driver in -current?

: Are these PCCARDs, or ISA cards?  Be aware that most of these radio
: netcards are 2Mbps or slower, so dewriring is less attractive than it
: may sound at first.

PCMCIA.  These cards run slower than ethernet, true.  But I can dewire
my bedroom, hot tub and other places where I read mail and don't need
10Mbps.....

Warner

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