From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 5 7: 5:24 2000 From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 5 07:05:21 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5CBC37B400 for ; Tue, 5 Dec 2000 07:05:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 143Jhl-0000NV-00; Tue, 05 Dec 2000 08:08:29 -0700 Sender: wes@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <3A2D04EC.E9494490@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 08:08:28 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warner Losh Cc: Sascha Luck , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard? References: <3A2BBE2F.FF5CA11@softweyr.com> <200012010142.SAA33362@harmony.village.org> <20001204140523.A12859@genesiseurope.net> <200012041836.LAA62726@harmony.village.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <3A2BBE2F.FF5CA11@softweyr.com> Wes Peters writes: > : Dell is selling a Lucent-OEMed card for $139. I don't know if it is a > : Silver or Gold, though. > > http://www.comready.com/dlindwwirlan.html > > is selling what appears to be a lucentOEM'd card for $119. It has > 40-bit WEP, so I don't know what metal that makes it (despite having > been told the last time this came up). Silver, according to the wicontrol(8) man page. ;^) > There's no external antenna > connector, however. Still not a bad price and with $20 of the price > point for taking my whole house wireless. Yeah, thanks. I still haven't decided if I'm going to stick (another) wireless card in my gateway machine or buy an access point/bridge. The prices of PCMCIA card cages are frightfully high, making the cost roughly the same, and the access point would support infrastructure mode also. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message