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Date:      Mon, 9 Jul 2001 21:16:15 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com>
To:        <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Orinoco USB ?
Message-ID:  <1504.206.112.124.107.994738575.squirrel@medusa.kfu.com>
In-Reply-To: <15174.9077.670203.615249@hip186.ch.intel.com>
References:  <15174.9077.670203.615249@hip186.ch.intel.com>

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> [ On Friday, July 6, Nick Sayer wrote: ]
>> Is anyone working on a driver for the (new?) Lucent Orinoco USB module
>>  or any other 802.11b USB dongles? It would be an excellent solution
>> to  the problem of turning a desktop machine into an 802.11 router.
>> 
> 
> Hadn't even heard of the new hardware, but that sounds awesome! If
> there is somebody who *could* work on this driver, but just needs
> hardware, let's start a pool going to provide said coder with said
> hardware. I'll pony up $20!
> 
> Is Lucent tight-lipped regarding the specs (like usual)?

For what it's worth, I saw a review where someone took it apart. It is a 
little widget that uses a popular USB interface microcontroller gizmo (the 
anchor chip?) that goes to a PC-Card socket, which has a Silver card 
plugged into it. So it would probably only require a sort of attachment 
shim on the front of the existing wi driver.


> 
> -Jr
> 
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