From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed May 6 08:57:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA18880 for freebsd-mobile-outgoing; Wed, 6 May 1998 08:57:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jli.com (jli.com [199.2.111.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA18863 for ; Wed, 6 May 1998 08:57:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from trost@cloud.rain.com) Received: (qmail 1688 invoked by uid 4); 6 May 1998 15:22:46 -0000 Received: (qmail 13861 invoked from network); 6 May 1998 15:20:26 -0000 Received: from softdnserror (HELO grey.cloud.rain.com) (127.0.0.1) by softdnserror with SMTP; 6 May 1998 15:20:26 -0000 To: Warner Losh cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Support for this IBM Wireless WAN card? References: <199805061357.HAA11000@harmony.village.org> <199805060710.AAA01754@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-reply-to: Your message of Wed, 06 May 1998 07:57:58 MDT. <199805061357.HAA11000@harmony.village.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <13857.894468025.1@grey.cloud.rain.com> Date: Wed, 06 May 1998 08:20:25 -0700 Message-ID: <13858.894468025@grey.cloud.rain.com> From: Bill Trost Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Warner Losh writes: I'll have to give the wlp driver a shot. How is it different than the wl driver in -current? The wl ISA WaveLAN uses a completely different NIC. : Be aware that most of these radio netcards are 2Mbps or slower, so : dewriring is less attractive than it may sound at first. Naah, don't listen to him. (-: Wireless is wonderful, and the T1 (effective) throughput you get with a WaveLAN card is plenty fast enough for "most" tasks. I can dewire my bedroom, hot tub and other places where I read mail and don't need 10Mbps..... You have one of those ruggedized laptops, I take it? (-: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message