Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2001 01:53:41 -0000 (GMT) From: Duncan Barclay <dmlb@dmlb.org> To: Matt Peterson <matt@peterson.org> Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lucent Wavelan and 4.2 works like a charm. Message-ID: <XFMail.010106015341.dmlb@computer.my.domain> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0101050837510.10169-100000@moaner.org>
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On 05-Jan-01 Matt Peterson wrote: > On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Duncan Barclay wrote: > >> Firstly, the Prism driver will not support Raylink cards. The raylink >> cards do not use an Intersil chipset - they use a Raytheon one (and > > I'm well aware Intersil isn't the only kid on the block. > >> it's a lot harder to program - if_ray.c has 3650 lines, if_wi.c has >> 1599!). Oh, you probably meant a generic 802.11 layer. > > Word, correct. Rolling ifconfig to replace an/wi/raycontrol is a start. > I imagine one day maybe the merge of an/wi/awi will follow, *shrug*. > >> I do agree it's messy. There are no APs that will talk to the V4 raylink >> cards. I don't think the firmware does infrastructure mode. > > Oh really, so why do people buy them? ;) These were the first batch of cards sold by Webgear up to Feb. 2000 and they were dirt cheap (two cards plus two ISA-PCMCIA converters for $100 in Frys). Webgear and Raylink then made the firmware 802.11 compliant and sold them with APs at a lot higher prices. >> Any ideas on how not to violate POLA for V4 raylink owners? > > Man page in bold & display firmware version (and possible warning) with > raycontrol. Okay. > -- > Matt Peterson another.geek.without.a.life > matt@peterson.org http://matt.peterson.org/ > ------------------------------------------------- Duncan --- ________________________________________________________________________ Duncan Barclay | God smiles upon the little children, dmlb@dmlb.org | the alcoholics, and the permanently stoned. dmlb@freebsd.org| Steven King To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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