Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 23:22:34 -0500 From: Scott Lambert <lambert@lambertfam.org> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wirelss card & cardbus Message-ID: <20040113042234.GD2853@laptop.lambertfam.org> In-Reply-To: <20040112212211.D46E75D07@ptavv.es.net> References: <20040112120000.B5579@eskimo.eskimo.com> <20040112212211.D46E75D07@ptavv.es.net>
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On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 01:22:11PM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 12:00:00 -0800 > > From: Ross Lippert <ripper@eskimo.com> > > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org > > > > I just bought a new wireless card for my laptop, which was cardbus, > > and it seems that that means it is unsupported (but it is not like I > > could tell from the distributor's site that it was cardbus or not). > > > > So, as I package this guy up for a return, I ask, does anyone have a > > recommendation for a card with at least 128-bit WEP and support for > > at least 802.11b if not g, for FBSD 4.X? > > You can always run 5.2, just released a few minutes ago. It supports > CardBus and many 'g' cards. For non-SMP systems, it's really pretty > solid. Even many of the unsupported wireless cards are supported in 5.2-CURRENT. My new laptop has a built-in "HP WLAN 54g W450 Network Adapter", which is apparantly a Broadcom chip. With the NDIS driver in -CURRENT, it works just great. :-) -- Scott Lambert KC5MLE Unix SysAdmin lambert@lambertfam.org
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