From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 16 3:10:14 2002 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 0CC0737B401 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 03:10:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx0.gmx.net (mx0.gmx.net [213.165.64.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CAC6543EB3 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 03:10:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from CapM@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 25156 invoked by uid 0); 16 Oct 2002 10:10:10 -0000 Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 12:10:10 +0200 (MEST) From: Pascal Giannakakis To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Bluetooth (BlueZ) or WLAN in FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-Authenticated-Sender: #0000945514@gmx.net X-Authenticated-IP: [195.82.64.130] Message-ID: <14613.1034763010@www43.gmx.net> X-Mailer: WWW-Mail 1.5 (Global Message Exchange) X-Flags: 0001 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Lo ppl, i'd like to link a WinME PC to my FreeBSD via Bluetooth or WLAN, depending on what works and / or is cheaper. The (air-line) distance is around 10 meters through 2 walls. What would you recommend for this scenario (e.g., what drivers will work fine with FreeBSD)? - 2 WLAN devices - Internal PCI card - external USB box Or - 2 bluetooth USB dongles While i'm sure i will find a way to make windows use ip over bluetooth, i wonder if FreeBSD in the latest release will make it. I found this project: http://bluez.sourceforge.net The FreeBSD mailing archives lead me to this link, but on this site it talks of Linux only, and i cannot compile it on FreeBSD =( The bluetooth solution seems smarter to me, and i'd love to see it work on my fav OS, as i can plug it out and carry it around in my pocket, use it with cellular phones, notebooks, other computers etc, so i would try this if bluetooth is supported at least in a basic manner. Any comments appreciated, thanx! -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message