From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Sep 1 6:36:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.netplex.com.au [203.38.14.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8844D154B7; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 06:36:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8595D1CA7; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 21:35:11 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Mike Smith Cc: brooks@one-eyed-alien.net, Donald Burr , FreeBSD Hardware , FreeBSD Mobile Subject: Re: Where to buy WaveLAN cards (both ISA and PCMCIA)? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 31 Aug 1999 15:15:14 MST." <199908312215.PAA00866@dingo.cdrom.com> Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 21:35:11 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <19990901133511.8595D1CA7@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mike Smith wrote: > > Finaly, I seem to recall seeing Bill Paul commenting that he was working > > on a Aironet driver which would be cool since they are 802.11 compatiable > > and support 11Mbps instead of just 2 or 6Mbps like the WaveLANs. Some > > linux people have bad things to say about Arionet so it may be that Bill > > hit some of the same problems. > > Having perused the Linux Aironet driver sources a little while back, I > would be much more concerned with the quality of the driver than the > hardware at this point in time. Bill seems to be reasonably close to > having a working Aironet driver, so we'll have a chance to see for > ourselves soon enough. To spare anyone the pain of finding out the hard way, DO NOT BUG BILL ABOUT THIS! Bill will announce it when/if he's ready and don't bother him about it until then. All that will achieve is get him annoyed at you and that's not something you want to experience. 1/2 :-) Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message