From owner-freebsd-net Mon May 6 17:33:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mail.airnet.com.au (mail.airnet.com.au [202.174.32.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BEDB737B401 for ; Mon, 6 May 2002 17:33:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 25975 invoked from network); 7 May 2002 00:32:50 -0000 Received: from ppp126.ar1.adl1.airnet.com.au (HELO bender) (202.174.34.126) by mail.airnet.com.au with SMTP; 7 May 2002 00:32:50 -0000 From: "Martin Minkus" To: "'John Hay'" , "'Terry Lambert'" Cc: , Subject: RE: 802.11: WaveLAN/Orinoco Cards Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 10:01:53 +0930 Message-ID: <006601c1f55e$b74c81e0$0200000a@bender> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.3621.0 In-Reply-To: <200205061816.g46IGDq60379@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Martin Minkus wrote: > > > But it's a standard WaveLAN/Orinico card, which is what the wi > > > driver is intended for? > > > > > > I never had to worry about any of this when I had the old > > > white/bronze 2mbit wavelan cards, but with silver and gold cards, > > > its been nothing but fun and games.... > > > > I suppose I can understand wanting to control the data rate > manually > > because you can, rather than just being happy it works at > the highest > > data rate... > > > > The only thing I could suggest would be to contact the > driver author > > directly and/or sign an NDA and get the programming docs yourself. > > I'm pretty sure Julian could answer yes/no questions about the card > > speed setttings. > > > > Nothing as drastic as that. It is/was a bug and has been fixed: > > revision 1.100 > date: 2002/04/14 23:18:40; author: brooks; state: Exp; > lines: +15 -0 Fix tx-rate setting for Lucent cards. Oh, okay. silence:~> uname -a FreeBSD silence.diskiller.net 4.5-STABLE FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE #8: Fri Apr 5 21:43:06 CST 2002 diskiller@silence.diskiller.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/SILENCE i386 silence:~> April 5. So if I cvsup and make world/build a new kernel, I should have that fix then :) Thanks, Martin. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message