From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 5 13:10: 8 2000 From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 5 13:10:05 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from alpo.whistle.com (s206m1.whistle.com [207.76.206.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F23A37B401 for ; Tue, 5 Dec 2000 13:10:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from whistle.com (crab.whistle.com [207.76.205.112]) by alpo.whistle.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA41538; Tue, 5 Dec 2000 13:06:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ambrisko@localhost) by whistle.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id NAA19124; Tue, 5 Dec 2000 13:05:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ambrisko) From: Doug Ambrisko Message-Id: <200012052105.NAA19124@whistle.com> Subject: Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard? In-Reply-To: <200012052046.NAA72980@harmony.village.org> from Warner Losh at "Dec 5, 2000 01:46:51 pm" To: Warner Losh Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 13:05:27 -0800 (PST) Cc: Doug Ambrisko , Wes Peters , Sascha Luck , current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL61 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 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 writes: | In message <200012051932.LAA23532@whistle.com> Doug Ambrisko writes: | : Well this is what I'm doing with the Aironet stuff. I have a script | : to flip between modes until it sync's up. I bought the PCMCIA ISA | : adapter for $25 from a local surplus place. | | Does this mean that the an driver can operate in "base station" mode? No, just ad-hoc (atleast that's what is published). So on my laptop my script flips between modes (ad-hoc & infrastructure) until it sync's up with whatever it can find. I start it out of pccard.conf so it is automatic on card insertion, reboot or wakeup. | : BTW I saw ADDTRON http://www.addtron.com/ has a base station for around | : $220 that can do 128 bit encryption, has an antenna and is Web administered. | : I haven't used it but it looks interesting. | | I'll have to check this out as well. Let us know what you find out. Doug A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message