Re: Wireless @ D.C. IETF

[Brian Lloyd <brian at lloyd.com>]

At 01:45 PM 10/12/99 -0700, Stuart Cheshire <cheshire at apple.com> wrote:
>>I'll give you a free Wireless Access Point(10BaseT to wireless ethernet 
>>bridge) and a PCMCIA Wireless NIC if you can provide a functioning
>>driver by 8:00am on Sunday Nov. 6th for one of the following platforms
>>
>>MacOS (PowerPC, Open Transport 1.0 or higher)
>>...
>
>I fear you will have trouble finding anyone to do the Mac version. Apple 
>already has IEEE 802.11 (DS) at 11Mb/s, and the price is only $99 for the 
>card and $299 for the Ethernet/Wireless/Modem base station. 

And while not trying to plug our company's products, the Lucent WaveLAN
PCMCIA card already comes with drivers for MacOS.  Please support 802.11
DSSS and people with Macs don't need a special driver written.


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