From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Jul 9 21:16:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from quack.kfu.com (quack.kfu.com [205.178.90.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EA7137B401 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 21:16:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nsayer@quack.kfu.com) Received: from medusa.kfu.com (medusa.kfu.com [3ffe:1200:301b:0:290:27ff:fed1:576b]) by quack.kfu.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6A4GGa84634 (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168 bits) verified OK); Mon, 9 Jul 2001 21:16:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nsayer@quack.kfu.com) From: Nick Sayer Received: from kfu.com (localhost.kfu.com [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated) by medusa.kfu.com (8.11.4/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6A4GFv76248; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 21:16:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nsayer@kfu.com) Received: from 206.112.124.107 (SquirrelMail authenticated user nsayer) by medusa.kfu.com with HTTP; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 21:16:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1504.206.112.124.107.994738575.squirrel@medusa.kfu.com> Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 21:16:15 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Orinoco USB ? To: In-Reply-To: <15174.9077.670203.615249@hip186.ch.intel.com> References: <15174.9077.670203.615249@hip186.ch.intel.com> Cc: X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.1.2) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Filter-Version: 1.3 (medusa.kfu.com) Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > [ On Friday, July 6, Nick Sayer wrote: ] >> Is anyone working on a driver for the (new?) Lucent Orinoco USB module >> or any other 802.11b USB dongles? It would be an excellent solution >> to the problem of turning a desktop machine into an 802.11 router. >> > > Hadn't even heard of the new hardware, but that sounds awesome! If > there is somebody who *could* work on this driver, but just needs > hardware, let's start a pool going to provide said coder with said > hardware. I'll pony up $20! > > Is Lucent tight-lipped regarding the specs (like usual)? For what it's worth, I saw a review where someone took it apart. It is a little widget that uses a popular USB interface microcontroller gizmo (the anchor chip?) that goes to a PC-Card socket, which has a Silver card plugged into it. So it would probably only require a sort of attachment shim on the front of the existing wi driver. > > -Jr > > -- > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- =-= > | John Reynolds WCCG, CCE, (space for rent, cheap!) > | | Intel Corporation MS: CH6-210 Phone: 480-554-9092 pgr: > 602-868-6512 | | jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com > http://www-aec.ch.intel.com/~jreynold/ | > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- =-= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message