From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Feb 4 17:31:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from hindenburg.eboai.org (hindenburg.eboai.org [206.183.134.245]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3062237B41B for ; Mon, 4 Feb 2002 17:31:43 -0800 (PST) Received: by hindenburg.eboai.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3237F5E2DF; Mon, 4 Feb 2002 20:31:42 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 20:31:42 -0500 From: Chip Marshall To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bluetooth stack for FreeBSD (full status) Message-ID: <20020204203141.A35103@setzer.chocobo.cx> Reply-To: chip@chocobo.cx Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org References: <3C5F003D.CA329159@digisle.net> <3C5F1CE4.1566F495@mindspring.com> <00a201c1add7$dc2e99e0$27c8a8c0@my.domain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <00a201c1add7$dc2e99e0$27c8a8c0@my.domain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i X-URL: http://www.chocobo.cx/chip/ X-OS: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386 up 120 days, 18:56 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On February 04, 2002, Duncan Barclay sent me the following: > .11 without .11e is worse than Bluetooth for certain data types. For > example it cannot carry isochronous data. Bluetooth was never meant > to compete with .11 and was designed for a different purpose - > mobile phones. I've always thought it was odd that so many people I talk to think Bluetooth is competeing with 802.11 stuff. From what I've seen, Bluetooth basically seems like a wireless USB. -- Chip Marshall http://www.chocobo.cx/chip/ GCM/CS d+(-) s+:++ a20>? C++ UB++++$ P+++$ L- E--- W++ N@ o K- w O M+ V-- PS+ PE Y+ PGP+ t+@ 5 X R@ tv+() b++>+++ DI++++ D(-) G++ e>++ h->++ r++ y- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message