From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 15 22:08:43 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7EED106566B for ; Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:08:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from timothyk@wallnet.com) Received: from mta4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (mta4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.4.199]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBB138FC24 for ; Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:08:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from timothyk@wallnet.com) Received: from www.smsd.tv (ool-18bb7953.dyn.optonline.net [24.187.121.83]) by mta4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) with ESMTP id <0K5N00KSTW4F5CK0@mta4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:38:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from tim-kellerss-macbook-pro.local ([10.10.10.10]) by www.smsd.tv (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m7FLcZT5019508; Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:38:36 -0400 (EDT envelope-from timothyk@wallnet.com) Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:38:38 -0400 From: Tim Kellers In-reply-to: <48A5EF17.8000705@acm.poly.edu> To: Boris Kochergin Message-id: <48A5F75E.7020006@wallnet.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <407385.56133.qm@web52109.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <48A5BE8E.4070808@lanl.gov> <48A5EF17.8000705@acm.poly.edu> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Macintosh/20071031) Cc: ipfreak@yahoo.com, James Harrison , freebsd general questions Subject: Re: desktop wireless card X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:08:43 -0000 I have had Lynksys cards that were not recognized, but in those cases I was able to use ndisgen (after I dug up the Windows drivers) to create a wrapper and enable those cards in both FreeBSD 6.3 and 7 -CURRENT (way back when 7 was current). I haven't had to do it since 7.0-RELEASE but I'd expect it to work as well. Tim Kellers CPE/NJIT Boris Kochergin wrote: > James Harrison wrote: >> gahn wrote: >>> Hello: >>> >>> Could anyone recommend a desktop wireless card for freebsd 6.2? Just >>> moved in new place and only wireless in the house. >>> >>> Thanks in advance >>> >>> >>> >> I use whatever was the cheapest linksys wireless G card I could find; >> plugs in to PCI slot and works wonderfully. >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I'm not certain that everything Linksys puts out has FreeBSD-supported > hardware inside. I have a bunch of TRENDnet TEW-443PI and Netgear > WG311T cards that work well. They use the ath(4) driver. > > As a general statement, I'm pretty sure that anything with an Atheros > chip inside (a fact often advertised on boxes of the products) that > doesn't support any incarnation of 802.11n will work with said driver. > http://atheros.rapla.net/ has more details. > > -Boris > _______________________________________________ > 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" > >