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Re: New wireless NICs from Diamond

If the full protocol and communication specs are available modifying a
ne2000 driver for linux would be a cakewalk. But, being wireless these
companies love to guard their secrets.. (The gimmie gimmie mine mine
syndrome) I've seen 2 companies do the "top secret" dance to hide the fact
that their hardware was junk.

As for the IBM cards, where can they be bought? I'll try and reverse hack
one at 20 bucks.

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: From: Nat Brown <>
: To: ; 
: Subject: RE: New wireless NICs from Diamond
: Date: Thursday, August 06, 1998 1:51 PM
: 
: wow, great products & prices. if anybody finds better technical specs for
: these than http://www.diamondmm.com/homefree/specs.html, please post.
they
: don't describe power requirements or weight at their site so far.
: 
: if these products are based on the aerocomm designs
: (http://www.aerocomm.com/oem.html and
: http://www.aerocomm.com/products.html#oem) then they could be quite
: low-power. not clear that they are, though, since they seem to use a
: protruding antenna, not built-in like the aerocomm (but maybe they do
this
: just to get outside the pc sheilding?).
: 
: n@
: 
: -----Original Message-----
: From: R. Paul McCarty [mailto:]
: Sent: Thursday, August 06, 1998 10:18 AM
: To: ; 
: Subject: New wireless NICs from Diamond
: 
: Saw this article mentioned in Slashdot about a new NIC from Diamond
: Multimedia that allows you to network pcs at 1mbps using 2.4GHz radio
: frequencies up to 150ft.  This isn't all that impressive until you note
: they are selling either 2 nic cards for $200, or 1 nic card and one
: PCMCIA card for $230.
: 
:   http://www.next-generation.com/jsmid/news/4107.html
: 
: Of course you can pick up an IBM network card for $20/each, but no one's
: written any drivers for it, but they might for this one.  The cheapest
: linux supported wireless network cards are the DEC roamabout which sell
: for $300-$400/each (figure 2x=$600-$800).
: 
: -Paul
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