From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jul 8 16:08:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA15023 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 8 Jul 1997 16:08:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cactus.fi.uba.ar (cactus.fi.uba.ar [157.92.49.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA15006 for ; Tue, 8 Jul 1997 16:08:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from hpagola@localhost) by cactus.fi.uba.ar (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA13437; Tue, 8 Jul 1997 17:07:10 -0300 (ART) Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 17:07:10 -0300 (ART) From: Hugo Pagola To: "Daniel O'Callaghan" cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wireless Services In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, Daniel O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Hugo Pagola wrote: > > > > > The Breezecom stuff is nice because it > > > > does multi-rate (it goes to lower throughput if it can't make it at 3 > > > > Mbps). However, compared to the Freewave radios they are pretty deaf (fine > > > > for indoor use, but bad for long outdoor links). > > > > > > We are currently testing Breezecom's ``stuff'' over the same 12 mile > > > leg in my original message, currently waiting on the attenna climber > > > to crawl up the mast and deploy the 2.4GHz yagi. A quick little > > > test says we could here the transmitter okay. > > > > > > > I've an offer for solitek wireless cards that claim to be wavelan > > compatible. > > anybody test this card?. > > The Breezecom stuff is configured with the some driver than wavelan? > > Breezecom make standalone ethernet/radio adaptors. A station adaptor > plugs into the ethernet on the FreeBSD box. Downside of breezecom is > that two station adaptors can't talk to each other without going through > a hub. > > Danny > Yes, but what driver do you use in the freebsd box for the breezecom cards? is the same than wavelan? thanks Hugo Pagola