Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 03:23:51 -0500 From: Kris Kirby <kris@airnet.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cheap link (was: Are the ethernet drivers time dependent?) Message-ID: <37C79C97.E33C91FD@airnet.net> References: <XFMail.990828160923.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <37C7952C.44F0BE51@airnet.net> <19990828174145.K13904@freebie.lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey wrote: > > I'm going to be building at least three of these units, assuming I get > > the technical issues out of the way. So I'm looking at a cheap (hardware > > and software) way of getting data in and out of a PC with IP support and > > such. It just makes sense in my POV to use a NIC. It's capable of 10 > > Mbps and has most of the circuitry for preparing data for transmission > > on it. If you will, it's a ready to use data pump. > > I think the technical issues will be your problem. Well, yeah. :-) High speed FHSS equipment is rather complicated and requires come pretty accurate (TXCO?) signal sources. There are going to be problems. If I can't use a ethernet card, I've got a MCU in mind to do the job. -- Kris Kirby <kris@airnet.net> ------------------------------------------- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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