From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 14 8:34:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clientmail.ehsrealtime.com (eris.ehsrealtime.com [213.52.146.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D35D37B417 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 08:34:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from pan.ehsrealtime.com ([213.52.146.196]) by clientmail.ehsrealtime.com with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 1642Qn-0003mT-01; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 15:58:29 +0000 Received: from waynep by pan.ehsrealtime.com with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1642sj-0006zj-00; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 16:27:21 +0000 From: Wayne Pascoe To: budsz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wavelan FreeBSD References: <20011114230946.A1266@bdg.centrin.net.id> Date: 14 Nov 2001 16:27:21 +0000 In-Reply-To: <20011114230946.A1266@bdg.centrin.net.id> Message-ID: <86r8r1xqqe.fsf@pan.ehsrealtime.com> Lines: 25 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 budsz writes: > Hi, > > I've been planning to install wireless in FreeBSD box (which is very > expensive in Indonesia), but i still confuse about which wavelan card > that is supported in FreeBSD. and which one is the best/ most > appropriate in FreeBSD. and what is the difference between lucent gold or > silver. I have a Lucent Orinoco Silver and it works fine. The one piece of advice I was given was if you are using a desktop, get an ISA PCMCIA converter, NOT a PCI one. The main difference (that I know of) between the Silver and the Gold is encryption levels. Silver uses 40bit and Gold uses 128 (I think!). I wouldn't worry too much about encryption as WEP has largely been broken. Rather go for the 40bit solution and implement a VPN for your wireless comms between your machine and your gateway. -- - Wayne Pascoe | Win if you can. Lose if you must. freebsd@molemanarmy.com | But always cheat! http://www.molemanarmy.com | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message