Re: Cheap link (was: Are the ethernet drivers time dependent?)

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From
Kris Kirby <kris@airnet.net>
Date
28 Aug 1999 01:24:36
Subject
Re: Cheap link (was: Are the ethernet drivers time dependent?)
Message-ID
37C79C97.E33C91FD@airnet.net


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Greg Lehey 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.
>
> I think the technical issues will be your problem.

Well, yeah. :-) High speed FHSS equipment is rather complicated and
requires come pretty accurate (TXCO?) signal sources. There are going to
be problems. If I can't use a ethernet card, I've got a MCU in mind to
do the job.

--
Kris Kirby
<kris@airnet.net>
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TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said.


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