[rescue] Wireless on an Ultra 10

[Lionel Peterson]

--- "Michael A. Turner" <mturner at whro.org> wrote:

> 	Then I was reading the article last night on the register
> about the new sparcle laptops by tadpole. One of the things that
> I noticed in the article is that they will be there usual sun
> gear with an ultraSparc processor. What caught my eye is that
> they will include wireless internet. This means that somewhere,
> somehow, there are wireless drivers for Sun gear. We just have
> to find a way to pry them loose from whatever they are nailed to.

I noticed this too - the SparcLE laptop looks very nice, but at $3K,
well...

There is supposed to be 802.11b support in OpenBSD, IIRC (PCMCIA
adapter and Lucent card seemed to be possible)...

> but when a $5 ethernet cable can do the same job better (faster and
> more reliably to boot) I guess I will have to go with that option.
> Does that make me less of a geek?

No, running CAT 5e around the house is always good for geek points!

=====
Lionel

"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976

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