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Date:      Mon, 19 Oct 1998 12:27:04 +1000 (EST)
From:      Andy Newman <atrn@zeta.org.au>
To:        jflowers@ezo.net (Jim Flowers)
Cc:        luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Who is using the wavelan driver ?
Message-ID:  <199810190227.MAA06568@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
In-Reply-To: <01bdfaab$a400a820$858266ce@violet.ezo.net> from "Jim Flowers" at Oct 18, 98 11:26:13 am

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> The newer (802.11) cards aren't very friendly for 3hd parties as they don't
> support ad-hoc networking, aren't backwards compatable and have a lousy
> external antenna connector.  They also use a modem adapter rather than an
> Ethernet interface so not much hope for the wl.

I was using some recently and there are some new drivers for 95/NT that
support the "ad-hoc" networking mode. As for the other complaints I can't
say anything as I've never used them before but I'd like to know about the
h/w i/f on the 802.11 cards as a Linux/BSD driver would be useful to me
(to avoid buying a WavePOINT to get at our Ethernet from the wireless hosts
and to avoid NT for obvious reasons).

> I also notice the www.wavelan.com site is no longer responding

No, it's up and I'm looking at it now. The DNS says its 195.108.47.86 if
you suspect stale DNS troubles.

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Andy Newman

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