From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 4 17:34:31 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B60C16A420 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2006 17:34:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dgilbert@daveg.ca) Received: from ox.eicat.ca (ox.eicat.ca [66.96.30.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF1BF43D80 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2006 17:34:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dgilbert@daveg.ca) Received: by ox.eicat.ca (Postfix, from userid 66) id AF04B11C63; Wed, 4 Jan 2006 12:34:16 -0500 (EST) Received: by canoe.dclg.ca (Postfix, from userid 101) id 699831A07FA; Wed, 4 Jan 2006 12:34:10 -0500 (EST) From: David Gilbert MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17340.1810.346416.267523@canoe.dclg.ca> Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 12:34:10 -0500 To: Sam Leffler In-Reply-To: <43BC049E.2040301@errno.com> References: <17337.50303.811554.900031@canoe.dclg.ca> <43B9C7F1.5030303@cs.unisa.edu.au> <20060104005134.k60dxcrrcw0c40kk@netchild.homeip.net> <17339.4293.673806.446317@canoe.dclg.ca> <20060104115859.554eff0a@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <43BC049E.2040301@errno.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.4 (patch 18) "Social Property" XEmacs Lucid Cc: Alexander Leidinger , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, David Gilbert Subject: Re: dhclient ignoring link on wi0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 17:34:31 -0000 >>>>> "Sam" == Sam Leffler writes: Sam> There are many people capable of dealing with these issues but Sam> most are smart enough to recognize that there is little to be Sam> gained by hacking on a driver for hardware that is out of date Sam> and can be replaced for the price of a cheap dinner. Well I care. People are still producing prism based high power router cards (400 mW and better). I was looking at some today. To be a serious router OS, I see wi support as important for a few more years. Also ... do to spotty support, buying a new card for FreeBSD is difficult. While I might pay only $50 or so for a new card, finding a compatible one is difficult (mostly due to vendor sillyness). Neither has ATH been good to me. I was an early ATH adopter --- I still have an early ATH mini-pci in my laptop. Lately I havn't been able to figure out how to give it an encryption key ... the ifconfig (in 6.0-STABLE) refuses. It's always had some sort of bug that dropps the odd packet. I've never really figured it out ... I just run local web proxies. I'm somewhat happy to have an intel a/b/g card arriving with my new laptop. Anyways... I'm game. I have a test system (I'll have to find a disk for it) and I have a PCI prism. I also have severl pccard prisms to test with, should that be required. While I don't have fancy new hardware to play with, I have a goodly collection of old hardware. Anyone have some notes before I dive in? Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can be | |Mail: dave@daveg.ca | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================