From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 12 20:22:38 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A542116A4CE for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 20:22:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.lambertfam.org (www.lambertfam.org [216.223.208.55]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9743843D4C for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 20:22:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lambert@lambertfam.org) Received: from laptop.lambertfam.org (ool-182db8f6.dyn.optonline.net [24.45.184.246]) by mail.lambertfam.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0826134D2D for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 23:22:37 -0500 (EST) Received: by laptop.lambertfam.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 3462FC0E7; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 23:22:34 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 23:22:34 -0500 From: Scott Lambert To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040113042234.GD2853@laptop.lambertfam.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org References: <20040112120000.B5579@eskimo.eskimo.com> <20040112212211.D46E75D07@ptavv.es.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040112212211.D46E75D07@ptavv.es.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i Subject: Re: wirelss card & cardbus X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 04:22:38 -0000 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 > > 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