Date: Wed, 06 May 1998 15:06:03 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Support for this IBM Wireless WAN card? Message-ID: <199805062206.PAA00496@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 06 May 1998 07:57:58 MDT." <199805061357.HAA11000@harmony.village.org>
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> In message <199805060710.AAA01754@antipodes.cdrom.com> Mike Smith writes: > : Just knowing the NIC isn't much help - you need to know how to talk to > : the radio as well. Actually, it sounds like the card might be a > : Wavelan or similar - have you tried pointing the 'wlp' driver out of > : the PAO kit at it? > > Or similar. I'll have to give the wlp driver a shot. How is it > different than the wl driver in -current? More or less completely; different NIC, different radio. > : Are these PCCARDs, or ISA cards? Be aware that most of these radio > : netcards are 2Mbps or slower, so dewriring is less attractive than it > : may sound at first. > > PCMCIA. These cards run slower than ethernet, true. But I can dewire > my bedroom, hot tub and other places where I read mail and don't need > 10Mbps..... Hmm, you have waterproofed your Libretto? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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