Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 08:42:44 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Peterson <matt@peterson.org> To: Duncan Barclay <dmlb@dmlb.org> Cc: <mobile@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Lucent Wavelan and 4.2 works like a charm. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0101050837510.10169-100000@moaner.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010105163134.dmlb@computer.my.domain>
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On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Duncan Barclay wrote: > Firstly, the Prism driver will not support Raylink cards. The raylink > cards do not use an Intersil chipset - they use a Raytheon one (and I'm well aware Intersil isn't the only kid on the block. > it's a lot harder to program - if_ray.c has 3650 lines, if_wi.c has > 1599!). Oh, you probably meant a generic 802.11 layer. Word, correct. Rolling ifconfig to replace an/wi/raycontrol is a start. I imagine one day maybe the merge of an/wi/awi will follow, *shrug*. > I do agree it's messy. There are no APs that will talk to the V4 raylink > cards. I don't think the firmware does infrastructure mode. Oh really, so why do people buy them? ;) > Any ideas on how not to violate POLA for V4 raylink owners? Man page in bold & display firmware version (and possible warning) with raycontrol. -- Matt Peterson another.geek.without.a.life matt@peterson.org http://matt.peterson.org/ ------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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