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From: Kevin Brown <kbrown>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: WaveLan driver for FreeBSD?
Date: 7 Feb 1996 15:37:23 GMT
Organization: University of South Carolina - Columbia - Computer Science
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Is there an existing WaveLan device driver for FreeBSD?  I'm getting a WaveLan
card soon and I need to get it set up.  I know that Linux has a driver but I
really don't want to switch to Linux from BSD.

If there is no current driver, how hard would it be for someone with no device
driver experience to port the Linux driver to BSD?  (impossible?)  I looked at
the Linux code and it's 2300 lines of unpleasantness.

Thanks for any help,
Kevin Brown					kbrown@cs.sc.edu