From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Jan 5 8:42:49 2001 From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 5 08:42:47 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from moaner.org (aphex.peterson.org [209.228.7.160]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D621D37B400 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 08:42:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (matt@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moaner.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f05GgiO10348; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 08:42:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matt@peterson.org) Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 08:42:44 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Peterson X-X-Sender: To: Duncan Barclay Cc: Subject: Re: Lucent Wavelan and 4.2 works like a charm. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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