From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 25 19:06:53 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org 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 7185F16A41F for ; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 19:06:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jamesd.earl@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1D3443D4C for ; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 19:06:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jamesd.earl@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id z31so544437nzd for ; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 11:06:52 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=AMjvAetVz3PfiiPr1BMEDq5DrfFv9uClaPLpblwxEOLlc2pyDCao1i7gReqtKOdneR+LKi/+iCzDG2krIKbn92uif32Y6pJ9FHELOwmipZZu+riDIebK7WcJVgZCJjh4+lkAktJjufBageCNdOo/7dH6HLCmlm7hHbL9Rc3F+i8= Received: by 10.65.181.10 with SMTP id i10mr3493284qbp; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 11:06:51 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.65.23.14 with HTTP; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 11:06:51 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 12:06:51 -0700 From: James Earl Sender: jamesd.earl@gmail.com To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Setting up FreeBSD wireless for sales person X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 19:06:53 -0000 Hi, I'm setting up a sales person's notebook with a wireless card. This sales person travels around and usually stays in hotels. He needs to be able to connect to the hotel's internet connection whether it be a wired or wireless connection. I previously had him running OpenBSD with a Sierra AirCard (would've been FreeBSD but I couldn't get it working :). I picked up a D-Link DWL-AG660. I currently have FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE on the notebook. I see the DWL-AG660 isn't detected by 6-RELEASE, hopefully just because it needs to have the device ids added? I don't have much experience with running a wireless setup with FreeBSD so I thought I'd seek your thoughts on whether I should turn this guy loose with FreeBSD and wireless, or if I should just put win98 on it for him. I imagine there may be cases where he'd have to change ssid's depending on the hotel network he's connecting to... which may complicate things... although I see there's some GNOME wireless applets which may work with FreeBSD? I guess the key question is whether it's possible to set this up to be user friendly enough for a non-technical person... the less interaction, the better?