From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 6 11:17:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za (zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5649A37B404; Mon, 6 May 2002 11:17:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g46IGDq60379; Mon, 6 May 2002 20:16:13 +0200 (SAT) (envelope-from jhay) From: John Hay Message-Id: <200205061816.g46IGDq60379@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: 802.11: WaveLAN/Orinoco Cards In-Reply-To: <3CD6B038.3E487B@mindspring.com> from Terry Lambert at "May 6, 2002 09:32:56 am" To: tlambert2@mindspring.com (Terry Lambert) Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 20:16:12 +0200 (SAT) Cc: diskiller@diskiller.net (Martin Minkus), freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Martin Minkus wrote: > > But it's a standard WaveLAN/Orinico card, which is what the wi driver is > > intended for? > > > > I never had to worry about any of this when I had the old white/bronze > > 2mbit wavelan cards, but with silver and gold cards, its been nothing > > but fun and games.... > > I suppose I can understand wanting to control the data rate > manually because you can, rather than just being happy it > works at the highest data rate... > > The only thing I could suggest would be to contact the driver > author directly and/or sign an NDA and get the programming > docs yourself. I'm pretty sure Julian could answer yes/no > questions about the card speed setttings. > Nothing as drastic as that. It is/was a bug and has been fixed: revision 1.100 date: 2002/04/14 23:18:40; author: brooks; state: Exp; lines: +15 -0 Fix tx-rate setting for Lucent cards. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@icomtek.csir.co.za / jhay@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message