Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 19:41:12 +0100 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: WiFi Nintendo-DS and FreeBSD Message-ID: <20051101184112.GC1889@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20051101124856.GA11657@lothlorien.nagual.st> References: <20051101124856.GA11657@lothlorien.nagual.st>
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--kfjH4zxOES6UT95V Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 01:48:57PM +0100, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > In november my DS goes WiFi (in Holland). > Naturaly I want to play games that support this feature. > (MarioKart-DS i.e.) at home ;-) >=20 > The FreeBSD related question is: > My main server runs 4.11-stable, some other machines run 5.4 >=20 > What do I have to do to give this DS wireless access to the net? > What is the best approach? >=20 > Only my main server is 24/7 connected (without a hardware router;-) > Do I put a wireless card in this machine? > Is this possible or do I have to upgrade FreeBSD to 6.0 to have WiFi? > > It's all new to me (this wireless stuff). All my machines are wired. > So I can use some tips, reading points or suggestions from you. Verify that a card contains a supported chip before you buy it. some manufacturers change chipsets without changing the model number. The handbook has a section on wireless networking: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.= html Some stuff about setting up a secure connection: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.= html Apparently the standard encryption (WEP) is not very secure and easily cracked.=20 At least you should have the firewall reject any packets whose MAC address doesn't match your DS and/or laptop. And you should probably restrict the ports that can be accessed via the wireless link. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt --kfjH4zxOES6UT95V Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDZ7bIEnfvsMMhpyURAiZxAJ41ORg+tMQgZ06Nzmh0FRmGhi3K7wCgpANG /JJ+rgv2EbWz4QBJzGyARt8= =237t -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --kfjH4zxOES6UT95V--
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