From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 23 15:35:17 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 63FB137B400 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 15:35:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADF9D43E4A for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 15:35:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 972AE812E3; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 08:05:10 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 08:05:10 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Ken Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wireless and FreeBsd Message-ID: <20020723223510.GB31093@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <001701c23215$5b177080$6e223c04@hewlettsqusv2q> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <001701c23215$5b177080$6e223c04@hewlettsqusv2q> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 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 On Monday, 22 July 2002 at 23:51:16 -0700, Ken wrote: > Hello, > Has anybody tried any of the wireless network cards with FreeBsd ? Yes. > I'm considering one of the Dlink wireless setups for home. I have 1 > windows box and 1 freebsd box. I'm sure the windows box would have no > problems. I'm sure the FreeBSD box would have no problems. You should be aware of configuration issues, though. Normally if you use a base station you're OK. If you want to use "ad-hoc" mode, you should be aware that there are two different definition of "ad-hoc". There's "demo ad-hoc" mode which has a number of restrictions, and there's IBSS mode, which works with Microsoft. I don't know if Microsoft has any support for demo ad-hoc mode. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message