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Correctly capitalize MHz and GHz.

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Jens Schweikhardt 2002-03-16 17:31:46 +00:00
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@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ The
.Nm
driver controls a radio lan card system made originally by
NCR, then ATT, now Lucent. The system is spread-spectrum radio
at around 915 mhz (or 2.4 ghz). With the supplied omni-directional antennae,
at around 915 MHz (or 2.4 GHz). With the supplied omni-directional antennae,
about 400 feet (indoors, more outdoors) can be covered in circumference.
This card can talk to the companion (wlp0) pccard. Speeds vary
from 1 megabit to theoretically 2 megabits (roughly T1 in speed).
@ -53,8 +53,8 @@ and a ethernet lan controller. The latter component is the
ancient (and not very honorable) Intel 82586 ethernet chip.
Fundamentally it appears to the operating system as an ethernet system,
and speaks IEEE MAC addresses. The radio modem simply translates
ethernet packets to/from radio packets, that are either at 2.4 Ghz
or 915 mhz depending on the radio modem. It supports a collision
ethernet packets to/from radio packets, that are either at 2.4 GHz
or 915 MHz depending on the radio modem. It supports a collision
avoidance scheme. The lan controller
supports promiscuous mode, broadcast, and multicasting
(although there is a glitch