From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Nov 7 22:30:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from tele-post-20.mail.demon.net (tele-post-20.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEEE537B479; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 22:30:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from ragnet.demon.co.uk ([158.152.46.40]) by tele-post-20.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 13tOkY-000OQr-0K; Wed, 8 Nov 2000 06:30:23 +0000 Received: from wanderer.my.domain ([192.168.247.66]) by ragnet.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #1) id 13tHg8-000MBF-00; Tue, 07 Nov 2000 22:57:20 +0000 Content-Length: 1832 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: <200011062133.eA6LXAF28244@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2000 22:51:09 -0000 (GMT) From: Duncan Barclay To: Mike Smith Subject: RE: 3com AirConnect (was Re: Addtron wireless awp-100 ) Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, "Sean O'Connell" Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 06-Nov-00 Mike Smith wrote: >> >> Allow me to hijack this thread ... :) >> >> Does anyone know what the story is on the 3Com AirConnect cards >> wrt to chipsets and possible FreeBSD support? > > Bill Paul gutted one at the 'con. It contains a Harris chip, but there's > no sign of the AMD part. I'm not sure whether that's because it's > embedded in the Harris part, or whether there's something else funky > going on. If there's Linux support for it, we might be able to learn > something from that. At any rate, Warner has the card now. There are only a few people that make 802.11{fh|ds|a} chips: 802.11-Frequency Hopping 2Mb/s Raytheon, using their own MAC (chip is made by VLSI) and discrete RF Current(ish) cards from Webgear Oki, using the 7730 MAC and typically partnered with an old Hewlett Packard RF chipset Current(ish) cards from NDC Comms. InstantWave 802.11-Direct Sequence 2Mb/s Harris/Intersil, (Prism) using a variety of MACs e.g. AMD/Atmel Many vendors using the already mentioned reference designs Lucent using the WaveLan chips (Hermes) Many vendors using reference designs 802.11b-Direct Sequence 11Mb/s Harris/Intersil, (Prism II) ditto above Lucent/Orinoco. ditto above 802.11a-OFDM 54Mb/s Radidata and a couple of others have announced chipsets, but this stuff is not in products yet. Will be v. nice. Not many MACs announced yet. A few people have their own chipsets for their own products like Proxim. I can probably find out more from work - we've had a hand in some of the above. Duncan --- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message