>>>>> "Sam" == Sam Leffler <sam_at_errno.com> writes: Sam> There are many people capable of dealing with these issues but Sam> most are smart enough to recognize that there is little to be Sam> gained by hacking on a driver for hardware that is out of date Sam> and can be replaced for the price of a cheap dinner. Well I care. People are still producing prism based high power router cards (400 mW and better). I was looking at some today. To be a serious router OS, I see wi support as important for a few more years. Also ... do to spotty support, buying a new card for FreeBSD is difficult. While I might pay only $50 or so for a new card, finding a compatible one is difficult (mostly due to vendor sillyness). Neither has ATH been good to me. I was an early ATH adopter --- I still have an early ATH mini-pci in my laptop. Lately I havn't been able to figure out how to give it an encryption key ... the ifconfig (in 6.0-STABLE) refuses. It's always had some sort of bug that dropps the odd packet. I've never really figured it out ... I just run local web proxies. I'm somewhat happy to have an intel a/b/g card arriving with my new laptop. Anyways... I'm game. I have a test system (I'll have to find a disk for it) and I have a PCI prism. I also have severl pccard prisms to test with, should that be required. While I don't have fancy new hardware to play with, I have a goodly collection of old hardware. Anyone have some notes before I dive in? Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can be | |Mail: dave_at_daveg.ca | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================Received on Wed Jan 04 2006 - 16:34:31 UTC
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