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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in2.uu.net!news.mathworks.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!cs.umd.edu!rohit From: rohit@cs.umd.edu (Rohit Dube) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: WaveLan driver for FreeBSD? Date: 9 Feb 1996 15:15:50 GMT Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 Lines: 35 Message-ID: <4ffof6$nvc@mimsy.cs.umd.edu> References: <4fagvj$c8n@redwood.cs.sc.edu> <4fe1jn$5u5@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: krackle.cs.umd.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Keith Sklower (sklower@oboe.CS.Berkeley.EDU) wrote: : 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 : There is normal version wl.c, a pcmcia version wlp.c, a 2.4 gigahertz : versions wlg.c. It will probably take some hacking for FreeBSD, but : far less than starting with the linux version. I found 4 .c files in the above directory. if_wl.c, if_wl2p.c, if_wlgp.c, if_wlp.c. I guess there is one each for 915Mhz and 2.4Ghz PCMCIA and ISA adapters. Keith can you clarify. On a slightly different note, can somebody who has had experience with the drivers and the hardware clarify which cards would be a better buy : the 915Mhz or the 2.4Ghz? From what I know, they all cost the same : (USD) 695 Retail. The 915Mhz cards have a range of ~800 feet. The 2.4Ghz cards have a range of ~550 feet. What's the catch with the 915Mhz cards? (I too am trying to put together a setup : with an ISA machine and a Thinkpad, both running BSDI). Thanks in advance. Rohit Dube. (rohit@cs.umd.edu)