Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 10:45:00 -0800 From: "Fred L. Templin" <templin@erg.sri.com> To: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: templin@erg.sri.com Subject: NetWave driver for FreeBSD (was Re: PCMCIA card support list) Message-ID: <199712121845.KAA18364@grayling.erg.sri.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 10 Nov 1997 09:25:23 PST." <199711101725.JAA23650@grayling.erg.sri.com>
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Hello, About a month back, we had a discussion on this distribution as to whether a FreeBSD driver existed for the NetWave wireless networking cards. At that time, I announced that (to my knowledge) no such driver existed, but that I was in the process of writing one. Since no one spoke up to the contrary, I assumed that I was correct in my assertion and continued my coding effort, which I have recently completed. However, it now appears that a Netwave driver has been integrated into the PAO group's distribution from a different source. That driver appears to have been developed by Paul Borman of BSDi and (I assume) ported to FreeBSD only very recently. From my brief perusal of Paul's code, it is clearly more mature than that of my own in terms of engineering hours clocked on development, debug, and testing. So, I fully support it as the reference FreeBSD driver for NetWave. However (in light of the discussion on this subject a month back) if anyone was aware of the existence of this driver, shame on you for not telling me - it would have saved me a great deal of time and effort! Fred templin@erg.sri.com > To: Kelvin <kelvin@uni.net.hk>, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG > cc: templin@erg.sri.com > Subject: Re: PCMCIA card support list > In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 10 Nov 1997 09:36:43 +0800." > <3466652B.7F715993@uni.net.hk> > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 09:25:23 -0800 > From: "Fred L. Templin" <templin@erg.sri.com> > Content-Length: 851 > > Kelvin, > > Are you talking about the Xircom Ethernet cards, or wireless (radio frequency) > networking cards? I'm certain the Ethernet cards are supported, but perhaps > others can give more specific details. As to the wireless networing cards, > Xircom has split this business off to a new company called NetWave who still > makes these cards. As of this writing, there is no FreeBSD driver which > supports the Xircom/NetWave wireless cards, but I'm currently 50% finished > coding one up and plan to submit the finished product to the FreeBSD community > when it's ready. > > Stay tuned... > > Fred > templin@erg.sri.com > > P.S. Look on the PAO homepage at: > > http://www.makefile.org/FreeBSD/PAO/ > > for an extensive list of supported devices. With few exceptions, > the devices supported under PAO are also supported under the vanilla > FreeBSD distribution.
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