[SPARCbook] Re: Wireless networking

[Koyote]

Well, yeah. That's sort of a recurring theme around here.

I'd vote for wavelan if someone was building, but it's not anything like
my area of expertise.

Chris Powell <Chris.Powell at zarlink.com> writes:

> On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 15:30:15 EST, Rikki169 at aol.com wrote:
> 
> > Here is the link for the pdf data sheet.
> > <A HREF="http://www.d-link.com/products/dwl810/pdfs/DWL_810DS.pdf">http://www.d-link.com/products/dwl810/pdfs/DWL_810DS.pdf</A>
> 
> The D-Link DWL-810 is a fine Ethernet to 802.11b bridge, just two
> problems using it with the SPARCbook:
> 
> 1. It's not a PCMCIA card, so wires and 10baseT transceiver still needed.
> 2. The spec sheet quotes power requirement is +5V 2.4A! Kinda rules out
>     battery operation with the SPARCbook.
> 
> What is really needed, is a Solaris driver for a bog-standard 802.11b
> PCMCIA card (vapourware at present!).
> 
> 
> ChrisP.
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