Date: Wed, 06 May 1998 08:20:25 -0700 From: Bill Trost <trost@grey.cloud.rain.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Support for this IBM Wireless WAN card? Message-ID: <13858.894468025@grey.cloud.rain.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 06 May 1998 07:57:58 MDT. <199805061357.HAA11000@harmony.village.org> References: <199805061357.HAA11000@harmony.village.org> <199805060710.AAA01754@antipodes.cdrom.com>
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Warner Losh writes:
I'll have to give the wlp driver a shot. How is it different than
the wl driver in -current?
The wl ISA WaveLAN uses a completely different NIC.
: Be aware that most of these radio netcards are 2Mbps or slower, so
: dewriring is less attractive than it may sound at first.
Naah, don't listen to him. (-:
Wireless is wonderful, and the T1 (effective) throughput you get with a
WaveLAN card is plenty fast enough for "most" tasks.
I can dewire my bedroom, hot tub and other places where I read mail
and don't need 10Mbps.....
You have one of those ruggedized laptops, I take it? (-:
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