Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 28-Aug-99 Kris Kirby wrote: > > I'm going to be building at least three of these units, assuming I get > > the technical issues out of the way. So I'm looking at a cheap (hardware > > and software) way of getting data in and out of a PC with IP support and > > such. It just makes sense in my POV to use a NIC. It's capable of 10 > > Mbps and has most of the circuitry for preparing data for transmission > > on it. If you will, it's a ready to use data pump. > > Ahh I see.. > So you're basically making a ethernet->radio type of thing? > > Or actually mangling the card itself?
Both. The problem is that you can't cram a signal moving at 10 Mbps through a radio interface designed for 256K, even if it is bandwidth limited to 256K. I'm hoping the 3C503 is ancient enough that I can slow it down by yanking it's 20.0000 MHz crystal oscillator and feeding it a lower speed signal. I'm going to walk them down to see just how far I can go. After all, 2 Mbps isn't bad, it just requires a little more work. -- Kris Kirby <k...@airnet.net> ------------------------------------------- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
