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Date:      Mon, 6 May 2002 20:16:12 +0200 (SAT)
From:      John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za>
To:        tlambert2@mindspring.com (Terry Lambert)
Cc:        diskiller@diskiller.net (Martin Minkus), freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 802.11: WaveLAN/Orinoco Cards
Message-ID:  <200205061816.g46IGDq60379@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <3CD6B038.3E487B@mindspring.com> from Terry Lambert at "May 6, 2002 09:32:56 am"

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> Martin Minkus wrote:
> > But it's a standard WaveLAN/Orinico card, which is what the wi driver is
> > intended for?
> > 
> > I never had to worry about any of this when I had the old white/bronze
> > 2mbit wavelan cards, but with silver and gold cards, its been nothing
> > but fun and games....
> 
> I suppose I can understand wanting to control the data rate
> manually because you can, rather than just being happy it
> works at the highest data rate...
> 
> The only thing I could suggest would be to contact the driver
> author directly and/or sign an NDA and get the programming
> docs yourself.  I'm pretty sure Julian could answer yes/no
> questions about the card speed setttings.
> 

Nothing as drastic as that. It is/was a bug and has been fixed:

revision 1.100
date: 2002/04/14 23:18:40;  author: brooks;  state: Exp;  lines: +15 -0
Fix tx-rate setting for Lucent cards.

John
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John Hay -- John.Hay@icomtek.csir.co.za / jhay@FreeBSD.org

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