[tech] Wavelan

[Duncan Sargeant]

comrade at obverse.com.au wrote on Wed March 21, at 22:58 +1100:
> As an alternative; try NetBSD 1.5.  I've been using an ISA-to-PCMCIA
> as well as PCI-to-PCMCIA bridges successfully for almost a year now. 
> The networking is rock-solid too, if that's important to you. 
> Wavelan support is, if anything better under NetBSD than Linux due
> to the absence of the binary drivers that Lucent provide for
> Linux/i386.

Lucent's drivers are provided under the GPL.  But that's not to say
that Linux has escaped suffering - Lucent have not yet updated their
drivers for the 2.4 series kernel, and the alternative GPL driver out
there which does have a 2.4 version, does not yet support Lucent's 6.x
firmware :-) YMMV!

,dunc