From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Feb 23 7: 7:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from ip68-2-87-144.ph.ph.cox.net (ip68-2-87-144.ph.ph.cox.net [68.2.87.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6393F37B400 for ; Sat, 23 Feb 2002 07:07:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from whale.home-net (whale [192.168.1.2]) by ip68-2-87-144.ph.ph.cox.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1NF6X458602; Sat, 23 Feb 2002 08:06:33 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from johnjen@reynoldsnet.org) Received: (from jjreynold@localhost) by whale.home-net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1NF6Xt47124; Sat, 23 Feb 2002 08:06:33 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from johnjen@reynoldsnet.org) From: John Reynolds MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15479.45049.101055.800692@whale.home-net> Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 08:06:33 -0700 To: "Daniel O'Connor" Cc: Pete Fritchman , mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: recommendation not to purchase DWL-1000AP In-Reply-To: <1014458041.21745.4.camel@chowder.dons.net.au> References: <15479.20563.424313.788279@whale.home-net> <20020223040048.A42166@databits.net> <1014458041.21745.4.camel@chowder.dons.net.au> X-Mailer: VM 6.88 under Emacs 20.7.1 Cc: Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [ On , February 23, Daniel O'Connor wrote: ] > > No you don't.. The firmware upgrade for the AP is done using tftp. was able to see that much after looking in the window's directory where it installed itself. They had a little lame "tftp_client" binary. I was about to try and run this directly with the .arm and .fs files (with the IP for the AP) but was unsure as to whether or not that's all the "upgrade" binary did (after it searched for the AP's IP). > BTW on my network it automatically picked up a DHCP lease which made > life easier.. yeah, that would make life easier, I just didn't have a DHCP server in my environment to start with. Thanks, -Jr -- John & Jennifer Reynolds johnjen@reynoldsnet.org http://www.reynoldsnet.org/ Senior CAD Engineer, WCCG, Intel Corporation jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com Running FreeBSD since 2.1.5-RELEASE. FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! "Unix is user friendly, it's just particular about the friends it chooses." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message