From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Mar 26 12: 7:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A706A37B416 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 12:07:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0210.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.210] helo=mindspring.com) by gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16pxDj-00052d-00; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 12:07:03 -0800 Message-ID: <3CA0D4D2.A6E7326B@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 12:06:42 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: anderson@centtech.com Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 802.11a wireless in FreeBSD? References: <3CA09C2E.718A993F@centtech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Eric Anderson wrote: > Does anyone know if any progress is being made in the 802.11a arena? If it is, > who might be working on it? Just curious. Do you mean by vendors, or do you mean for FreeBSD drivers? I believe several of the 802.11b drivers work with 802.11a devices, and there was at least one 802.11a specific driver that was posted about (check the -current archives). As far as vendors go, there's not a lot of progress. It's rather like BlueTooth: IBM pushes the heck out of it, but neglects to build it into the ThinkPad laptops, the Palm PDAs, or the Lexmark printers that it itself manufactures. It's a good idea -- for everyone else to do first -- it seems. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message