From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 12 14:30:44 2004 Return-Path: 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 2C58416A4CF for ; Wed, 12 May 2004 14:30:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from redfirst.wax.co.uk (redfirst.wax.co.uk [212.134.89.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC11A43D1F for ; Wed, 12 May 2004 14:30:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from uwe.kolsch@wax.co.uk) Received: from xp0 (82-43-144-161.cable.ubr02.newm.blueyonder.co.uk [82.43.144.161]) (authenticated bits=0) by redfirst.wax.co.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i4CLUVJC009071 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 12 May 2004 22:30:31 +0100 From: "Uwe Kolsch" To: Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 22:30:28 +0100 Organization: Wax New Media Agency Message-ID: <011701c43868$5bb85da0$cc06a8c0@wax.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the administrator for more information X-redfirst.wax.co.uk-MailScanner: Found to be clean Subject: RE: Wireless Cards ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 21:30:44 -0000 Edmund Allain wrote: > What wireless cards work on BSD ? I need a specific card in which I=20 > can go to Compusa and purchase it. I have already bought a smc2602w=20 > which was suppose to work but they change the chip. I m really=20 > frustrated with this delimna. Please give specific card names Thanks=20 > in advance eddie > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >=20 I'm using a D-Link AirPlus Xtreme, got it from ebuyer.co.uk, but guess = you can get it from ebuyer.com as well. Works fine, except: WEP doesn't work (when I gave the key I used with = w2k and linux ifconfig did not accept it, because it were to short, if I added two = random digits ifconfig accepted the key, but the router didn't as the key was not the proper key anymore. so I switched to access restriction by MAC address, which is not a = problem as it is my home network. Another problem was that the card did not come up at = boot time just by putting the ifconfig statements into /etc/rc.conf like =20 ifconfig_ath0=3D"inet 192.168.6.202 netmask 255.255.255.0" ifconfig_ath0_alias0=3D"inet 192.168.6.205 netmask 255.255.255.255" ifconfig_ath0_alias1=3D"inet 192.168.6.206 netmask 255.255.255.255" So I create ath0_up.sh in /usr/local/etc/rc.d as: #!/bin/sh /sbin/ifconfig ath0 inet 192.168.6.202 netmask 255.255.255.0 /sbin/ifconfig ath0 alias 192.168.6.205 netmask 255.255.255.255 /sbin/ifconfig ath0 alias 192.168.6.206 netmask 255.255.255.255 /sbin/route add default 192.168.6.1 Works without problems since then (but maybe someone has a hint how to = avoid all this) Uwe