From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 10 18:12:53 2000 From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 10 18:12:51 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B002137B400 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 18:12:51 -0800 (PST) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id eBB2Cn229056; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 18:12:49 -0800 Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 18:12:49 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: Warner Losh Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard? Message-ID: <20001210181249.B1488@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <200012102246.PAA31095@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200012102246.PAA31095@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 03:46:27PM -0700 Sender: brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 03:46:27PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > In message "jrs@enteract.com" writes: > : Is there a list of wireless pc cards that work (and how well they work) > : with FreeBSD?? > > There's /etc/defaults/pccard.conf, which says breifly: > Aironet 340/342 Series 11Mbps 802.11 wireless NIC This should read: Cisco Aironet 340 Series 11Mbps 802.11 wireless NIC I though this had been fixed, but apparently it wasn't in all places. > Aironet PC4800 11Mbps 802.11 wireless NIC These aren't 802.11b compatable. They played the usual game of releasing before the final IEEE vote on the standard to be early to market and didn't win the vote. The 802.11b compatable Aironet access points (Cisco APs) can be configured to support these, but the don't interoperate fully. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message