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Date:      Sat, 13 Jun 1998 12:04:45 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        "Jim Flowers" <jflowers@ezo.net>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: WaveLAN 802.11 
Message-ID:  <199806131904.MAA00795@antipodes.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 12 Jun 1998 05:42:35 EDT." <01bd95e6$6e2cfa20$8a8266ce@violet.eznets.canton.oh.us> 

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> It looks like the latest if_wl.c driver will work with the 2.4 GHz ISA
> 802.11 card 847647476 which is a pccard in an isa carrier.  Is this correct?

I don't know; it depends on whether the card looks like it is hung off 
a PCCARD bridge or whether it is directly connected to the bus.

> Can one FreeBSD computer accomodate more than one WaveLAN card?

Yes.

> Also I know this is a dumb question but will I be able to set up an Ethernet
> bridge between two (or more) FreeBSD computers with one of these cards in
> each?  I have been assuming that this is so but just noted that Lucent
> designs to a cell concept using a Wavepoint AP for each cell and doesn't say
> anything about ad hoc networks, so my question.  I am trying to avoid the
> expense of Wavepoints by using FreeBSD.

Do you want to bridge, or route?  FreeBSD doesn't support bridging, but 
it will route between multiple units just fine.

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\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
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