From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 23 03:07:34 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 150CA16A4CE for ; Sat, 23 Oct 2004 03:07:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [198.92.228.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F16843D2F for ; Sat, 23 Oct 2004 03:07:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.com [127.0.0.1]) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94413633D; Fri, 22 Oct 2004 22:07:32 -0500 (CDT) Received: from makeworld.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (makeworld.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 16210-07; Fri, 22 Oct 2004 22:07:30 -0500 (CDT) Received: from racerx.makeworld.com (racerx.makeworld.com [198.92.228.34]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4F826314; Fri, 22 Oct 2004 22:07:29 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris To: "Andrew L. Gould" Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 22:08:05 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <20041023101555.969B.LUKEK@meibin.net> <200410222021.35476.racerx@makeworld.com> <200410222203.36326.algould@datawok.com> In-Reply-To: <200410222203.36326.algould@datawok.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200410222208.05898.racerx@makeworld.com> X-Virus-Scanned: by ClamAV 0.75.1/amavisd-new-2.1.2 at makeworld.com - Isn't it ironic cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD Wireless X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: racerx@makeworld.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 03:07:34 -0000 On Friday 22 October 2004 10:03 pm, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > On Friday 22 October 2004 08:21 pm, Chris wrote: > > On Friday 22 October 2004 08:17 pm, Luke Kearney wrote: > > > Hi List, > > > I am looking to purchase a wireless PCI card for a new machine here > > > at my home. I was wondering if anyone can share sucess or horror > > > stories about the Elecom range of products. I am wanting to use one > > > machine as the access point and one machine as the client. I wasn't > > > planing to deploy a hardware access point though if the consensus > > > is that a hardware access point is the better way to go I could > > > certainly start looking at this. > > > > > > Thanks > > > > Just read what hardware is supported to date, buy it, then you can't > > go wrong. Pretty easy, aye? > > Sadly, no. Vendor's have changed chipsets without changing model > numbers or documenting the chipsets used on retail boxes. Further, > many of the pci cards that are documented as being compatible with > FreeBSD are no longer easy to find. > > The advantages of a hardware access point include: > > 1. Access and firewall configuration are done easily via a web browser. > 2. They are OS-neutral. > > For anyone running FreeBSD 5* who needs a new wireless card (pci or > pccard), I would suggest looking at the D-Link products that use the > Atheros chipset. D-Link is displaying the Atheros logo on the retail > boxes, which lowers the risk of a bad purchasing decision. > > (I'm not an advocate for D-Link or Atheros; but I am in favor of more > useful information on retail boxes.) I prefer NetGear - woiks well for me... -- Best regards, Chris Recent studies suggest that running /usr/bin/coffee from cron at regular intervals can be more effective at enhancing uptime than launching a big coffeed process at startup.