From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 18 19:29:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA04185 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 19:29:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.15.68.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA04177 for ; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 19:29:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from atrn@godzilla.zeta.org.au) Received: (from atrn@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA06568; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 12:27:05 +1000 From: Andy Newman Message-Id: <199810190227.MAA06568@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Subject: Re: Who is using the wavelan driver ? To: jflowers@ezo.net (Jim Flowers) Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 12:27:04 +1000 (EST) Cc: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <01bdfaab$a400a820$858266ce@violet.ezo.net> from "Jim Flowers" at Oct 18, 98 11:26:13 am Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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. -- Andy Newman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message