Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 19:54:41 -0500 From: "Mark A-J. Raught" <mraught@acm.org> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Proxim Symphony Cordless Message-ID: <3C2FB751.FE0DB307@acm.org>
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Does anyone know if any of the 802.11b drivers can be used for the Proxim Symphony Cordless cards? I have read that the newer (802.11b) Proxim cards can fall back to the old Symphony Cordless protocol (I guess so people can use their business Proxim cards with the cheaper and slower hardware at home.) Does FreeBSD have any drivers that do this? If so, can these drivers be used for the old cards in any way? I looked around and didn't find any info on these cards for FreeBSD, but I didn't know if they were covered by a different driver, like the wi working for many different vendor's wireless cards. I really don't know where to look though. I searched on FreeBSD.org and yahoo/google but found nothing promising except linux drivers. I use FreeBSD and OpenBSD (and unfortunatley a little ms-crap) for everything else in my home, but I have to use linux for this because of driver availability. (and my lack of driver programming abilities) I saw that there was work on a RangeLan driver (with Symphony cordless support?) for OpenBSD but work on it stopped because of an NDA that needed to be signed to get specs. I have written to Proxim, but I doubt I'll even get a response, let alone actual FreeBSD support or drivers. Maybe there's no interest left, but at 1.6mb speed and $39 at Staples, they keep up just fine for my laptop to access my DSL. Right now I have a linux box routing my laptop. My laptop uses win98SE (need it to dial into work) on one drive and Mandrake Linux on another drive. I went with Mandrake because it is "easy" for new users... I started with FreeBSD and am fairly comfortable with OpenBSD, but Linux is too mish-mashed for me to grasp as easily. Oh, well. (sorry about that ramble) just wondering, -mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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