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From: jrb@cs.pdx.edu (Jim Binkley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: freebsd wavelan driver available
Date: 24 Feb 1996 09:15:01 -0800
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Summary: 2 att/nec wavelan cards supported with freebsd drivers
Keywords: radio wavelan freebd
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I noticed some discussion of this a bit back in this group.
I posted an announcement of this to the freebsd annouce mailing list,
but I just thought I might point it out again here just in case
somebody missed it.  I ported two drivers, one for the pcmcia card,
and one for the ISA wavelan card to freebsd.  They can be obtained
in the directory ftp://zymurgy.cs.pdx.edu/pub/mobility
in the file wavelan.freebsd.tar.gz

some details:
The drivers are ports of drivers originally written by Anders Klements
for Mach, and worked on many other folks.  Their last stop before
freebsd was bsdi.  I ported them to 2.1R and got promiscuous mode
working.  The pcmcia driver is exactly like David Greenman's if_ze.c
driver in the way that it just fires up the pcmcia bus and does no more
than that.  Multicast seems to exist but I haven't turned it on or
played with it.  I am using the drivers and they are working fine so
far.

					regards,

					Jim Binkley
					jrb@cs.pdx.edu