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To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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Subject: Re: Kewl! If we can make it work, maybe I'll buy a pair of these.. 
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From: Matt Thomas <matt@lkg.dec.com>
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> [From USENET - Keith Slower writes]
> 
> >Is there an existing WaveLan device driver for FreeBSD?  I'm getting a WaveLan
> >card soon and I need to get it set up.  I know that Linux has a driver but I
> >really don't want to switch to Linux from BSD.
> 
> Hari Balakrishnan, a graduate student here did a BSDI driver, (for the
> use of the mobile computing group here).  They gave me permission to
> put various versions of the driver out for anonymous ftp from
> 
>     vangogh.cs.berkeley.edu:~ftp/pub/kls/wavelan

I've been playing with this code for a few weeks (since I do have two
WaveLAN card) and only major problem is the lack of reasonable PCMCIA
support.  I try the pccard stuff but it didn't grok the WaveLAN's CIS.

If someone is willing to help me through the PCMCIA cruft, I'll the
rest of the driver running.

Matt Thomas               Internet:   matt@3am-software.com
3am Software Foundry      WWW URL:    http://www.3am-software.com/bio/matt.html
Westford, MA              Disclaimer: I disavow all knowledge of this message