Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 12:06:51 -0700 From: James Earl <james@icionline.ca> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Setting up FreeBSD wireless for sales person Message-ID: <c6bf2550511251106n36464455k327fc8425db086e2@mail.gmail.com>
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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?
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