From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 19 03:00:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA15059 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 03:00:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lily.ezo.net (lily.ezo.net [206.102.130.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA15054 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 03:00:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jflowers@ezo.net) Received: from lily.ezo.net (jflowers@localhost.ezo.net [127.0.0.1]) by lily.ezo.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id FAA27706; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 05:59:57 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 05:59:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Flowers To: Andy Newman cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Who is using the wavelan driver ? In-Reply-To: <199810190227.MAA06568@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jim Flowers #4 ISP on C|NET, #1 in Ohio On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Andy Newman wrote: > > 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 I saw that they have a firmware upgrade that allows what they called "demo" adhoc networking but couldn't fathom what that was. One thing the 802.11 does is to look around for a wireless network to join so I thought "demo" mode might bypass that. > 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). If they do ad-hoc, I think they should be able to do point-to-multipoint with a Linux/BSD driver. The older style used a PC Card modem in an ISA carrier that hand an Intel Ethernet chip on it that was documented. If you look at the 802.11 ISA there is an IC that is a PC Card adapter. I think I found a web site for it but I don't remember if it had documentation. > > > 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. Thanks, I see it's back up. It was gone Friday when I really needed it (troubleshooting a WavePOINT in a remote area) and most of the weekend. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message