dhclient ignoring link on wi0
David Gilbert
dgilbert at dclg.ca
Wed Jan 4 09:34:31 PST 2006
>>>>> "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 gained by hacking on a driver for hardware that is out of date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.
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