Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 16:15:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex Belits <abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> To: Devin Butterfield <dbutter@wireless.net> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>, David Scheidt <dscheidt@tumbolia.com>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: if_strip for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108151613570.1130-100000@mercury> In-Reply-To: <01081423353401.09131@db.wireless.net>
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On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Devin Butterfield wrote: > > Some All > >versions of the metricom modems would allow point to point > > communications when they weren't on the merticom net. I don't know if > > this driver is for one of these or not, but it might not be a bad > > thing to do if so. I'll be there will be a lot of cheap modems on the > > market soon. Sierra evidentally got stiffed for $10M in inventory of > > these modems. They should be appearing on the surplus market soon... > > Exactly. This is the reason for my interest. I have a couple of the new > 128Kbs radios (the ricochet GS and GT models) and they have a different MAC > address format then the older radios that the if_strip driver was originally > written for. The difference is only this: > > Older radio MAC format: XXXX-XXXX > > Newer radio MAC format: XX-XXXX-XXXX or XXX-XXXX-XXXX > > So in addition to porting the basic driver to freebsd, it would be smart to > add code to accommodate the newer radios. Linux driver changes and formats used are at http://phobos.illtel.denver.co.us/~abelits/metricom/ > Oh, and the new radios work in peer-to-peer mode just fine. You can either > use them like regular modems and just dial the MAC address of the other modem > and establish a ppp link, or they can be used in "Starmode" (which is what > if_strip is for), allowing you to use them like wireless ethernet cards. Exactly. -- Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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