Re: FreeBSD support for 3Com OfficeConnect 11Mbps Wireless LAN PC card (3CRSHPW196)

At 21:58 07-11-2002 -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
>These cards are based on the old 'no wires nessary' cards.  There's a
>Linux port, and the docs are flowing around the net.  There's no
>driver for *BSD at the moment.  There's a Linux driver for this card.
>The 196/696 sounds like a refinement of the same interface, but I've
>not checked out the linux driver.

Damn, I hoped that 3Com just had applied the XJACK antenna to a better 
card. :-/

>I supposedly have one of these cards on the way to me to do some
>driver work, but so far it hasn't shown up.

A friend of mine contemplates writing a driver for the 3CRWE62092B but 
sofar he hasn't been able to get the specs from 3com..

Looks like I'm better off with Lucent's Orinoco cards ;-)

-jens

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