Woo hoo!  I will give this a try this weekend against a 'real' base
station from a Thinkpad, and if I can dig up my ISA PCMCIA card that came 
with my Alphastation 200, I'll give it a shot there, too.

From the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU!!!

:)

+j

On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 10:58:06AM +0200, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
> With some prompting by Christian Hopps, I ported Bill Paul's FreeBSD
> `wi' driver for the Lucent WaveLan/IEEE 802.11 wireless networking
> PCMCIA card to NetBSD-current.
> 
> It's been (very) minimally tested in the bar at the IETF hotel in
> "ad-hoc" mode, and has not been tested against base stations.
> 
> There's also a "wiconfig" program in /usr/sbin which lets you tweak
> the card settings; however, that did not appear to be necessary to get
> two of the cards to talk to each other.
> 
> The card I did the port with was on very short-term loan from
> Christian, so I won't really be able to do continued development on my
> port of the driver..
> 
> I'd be interested in hearing about:
> 	- success using it to talk to "real" 802.11 base stations
> 	- successful use on non-x86 platforms.
> 
> There are a couple issues:
> 	- it uses SIOCGIFGENERIC/SIOCSIFGENERIC; Jason thinks it
> should use SIOCSDRVSPEC instead, but there isn't a SIOCGDRVSPEC.
> Given the multiple dozen configuration parameters, it would be easier
> to just go with two ioctls rather than adding a get/set direction bit
> to the DRVSPEC sub-opcode, but something can be arranged..
> 
> 	- the transmit side does an extra data copy into a buffer in
> the softc.  This really should be cleaned up since it makes the softc
> about five times larger than it otherwise needs to be....
> 
> 				- Bill

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Jeff Rizzo                                         http://boogers.sf.ca.us/~riz