From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Jan 5 17:53:45 2001 From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 5 17:53:42 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (mta07-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 676E437B400 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 17:53:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from dmlb.org ([62.253.135.85]) by mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20010106015330.MVWH26323.mta07-svc.ntlworld.com@dmlb.org>; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 01:53:30 +0000 Received: from dmlb by dmlb.org with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 14EiY9-0007tl-00; Sat, 06 Jan 2001 01:53:41 +0000 Content-Length: 1576 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2001 01:53:41 -0000 (GMT) From: Duncan Barclay To: Matt Peterson Subject: Re: Lucent Wavelan and 4.2 works like a charm. Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 05-Jan-01 Matt Peterson wrote: > 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? ;) These were the first batch of cards sold by Webgear up to Feb. 2000 and they were dirt cheap (two cards plus two ISA-PCMCIA converters for $100 in Frys). Webgear and Raylink then made the firmware 802.11 compliant and sold them with APs at a lot higher prices. >> Any ideas on how not to violate POLA for V4 raylink owners? > > Man page in bold & display firmware version (and possible warning) with > raycontrol. Okay. > -- > Matt Peterson another.geek.without.a.life > matt@peterson.org http://matt.peterson.org/ > ------------------------------------------------- Duncan --- ________________________________________________________________________ Duncan Barclay | God smiles upon the little children, dmlb@dmlb.org | the alcoholics, and the permanently stoned. dmlb@freebsd.org| Steven King To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message