Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 23:07:00 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> Cc: francis yeung <fyeung@netific.com>, Tim Pozar <pozar@lns.com>, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ISA Aironet cards... Are they NE2000 compatible? Message-ID: <199810160607.XAA00926@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 15 Oct 1998 11:28:52 %2B0200." <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9810151123360.17130-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
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> Hi guys, > > > > Jonathan Steuer wrote: > > > > I'm (*FINALLY* - don't ask!) in the process of getting a couple of the new > > > > WaveLAN 802.11 cards, and would love to help out with this. I can also > > > > scare up a 386 or 486 if that will suffice for a machine... > > > > > > Cliff Skolnick has been kind enought to set aside some directory space > > > for me to compile a kernel with the wavelan support in it and build > > > a PicoBSD floppy. I had dropped the idea with Harvie's email that the > > > wavelan drives do not talk to the Aironet radios. If there is interest > > > in getting a PicoBSD distribution with Wavelan support I can go ahead. > > Hmmm... My knowledge of this specific type of cards is NULL, but I thought > we already have some driver for WaveLan cards in the tree (written by Mike > Smith???). Perhaps you're talking about some other card (the wl driver is > for ISA cards), in which case we'd be thrilled to see your code! The ISA Wavelan is an old animal. It's quite likely that newer Wavelans are completely different. We definitely don't have the infrastructure for 802.11 at this point in time, although it's possible someone is working on it. If someone wants to build a system with the ISA Wavelan code in it, I think they're probably going to be capable of generating a PicoBSD kernel (though there's no need to assume this). > In any case, better submit this type of code directly to someone who knows > the driver stuff (not me!) for review and inclusion in the source tree. > msmith@freebsd.org is a good person to talk with about it. If you have new driver code, or new hardware, documentation and some programming skills, then by all means give me a yell. Note that at the moment I'm not available to do contract development work, sorry. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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