Re: wi patch

If memory serves me right, Jason Hunt wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 03:22:54PM -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> > If memory serves me right, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> > > These patches make my lucent cards almost useful  They are in 1Mbps
> > > mode, it seems, but at least they work with a fair amount of
> > > reliability.  Don't try to set the media just yet.
> > 
> > Hi Warner--
> > 
> > I'm almost hesitant to post this, but I tried this patch, and a
> > Lucent WaveLan Silver card that I have is still a paperweight.
> 
> Out of curiosity, what's so bad about these cards?  I'll admit that I've
> used nothing other than Lucent cards, but I don't find anything to
> complain about with them.  They seem to work fine talking to each other
> and I can't complain about speeds or reliability of the signal.  Maybe
> it's just because I have nothing to compare them to? :)

From my perspective, the problem is that they *were* working fine, but
*now* mine isn't.  (Right now, my card probes but is otherwise not
useful for actually moving bits through the air.)  When it was
working, I had no complaints about mine either.  :-)

(Fortunately, I have a spare Aironet card.)

Bruce.

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