Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 19:50:42 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lucent Wavelan and 4.2 works like a charm. Message-ID: <200101060250.f062ogs58633@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 05 Jan 2001 11:50:43 PST." <20010105115043.H23398@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <20010105115043.H23398@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <200101042033.f04KXVJ17907@ptavv.es.net> <XFMail.010105104010.dmlb@computer.my.domain>
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In message <20010105115043.H23398@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Brooks Davis writes: : With current pricing trends, I think this is becoming less and less : true. With the the D-Link access points running as low as $234 on : shopper.com the price difference between an access point and a PCI card : is rapidly approching 0. Ad-hoc is still important, but frankly it's : not very useful for most situations. But the price of a single card is approaching $110 for the same d-link cards, so the price delta is still fairly large. ISA pccard bridge cards are about $20 each, so the price delta is still about $100. ad-hoc will be around for a long time. But it doesn't have to be the default so long as there are good instructions for setting up networks. We really need a section in the handbook about this. I know the difference between IBSS and BSS mode, but I'll bet most novices to this do not. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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