From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Jan 5 18:50:48 2001 From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 5 18:50:46 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from harmony.village.org (unknown [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FA5C37B400 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 18:50:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f062ogs58633; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 19:50:42 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200101060250.f062ogs58633@harmony.village.org> To: Brooks Davis Subject: Re: Lucent Wavelan and 4.2 works like a charm. Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 05 Jan 2001 11:50:43 PST." <20010105115043.H23398@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <20010105115043.H23398@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <200101042033.f04KXVJ17907@ptavv.es.net> Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 19:50:42 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message <20010105115043.H23398@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Brooks Davis writes: : With current pricing trends, I think this is becoming less and less : true. With the the D-Link access points running as low as $234 on : shopper.com the price difference between an access point and a PCI card : is rapidly approching 0. Ad-hoc is still important, but frankly it's : not very useful for most situations. But the price of a single card is approaching $110 for the same d-link cards, so the price delta is still fairly large. ISA pccard bridge cards are about $20 each, so the price delta is still about $100. ad-hoc will be around for a long time. But it doesn't have to be the default so long as there are good instructions for setting up networks. We really need a section in the handbook about this. I know the difference between IBSS and BSS mode, but I'll bet most novices to this do not. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message