From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Sep 4 21:11:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from camelot.bitart.com (BITart-45.BITart.com [206.103.221.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1703237B43F for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2000 21:11:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 26417 invoked by uid 101); 4 Sep 2000 03:11:25 -0000 Message-ID: <20000904031125.26416.qmail@camelot.bitart.com> Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 4.2mach v148) In-Reply-To: X-Nextstep-Mailer: Mail 4.2mach (Enhance 2.2p1) Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.148) From: Gerd Knops Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 22:11:25 -0500 To: "Sameer R. Manek" Subject: Re: affordable wireless Cc: Reply-To: gerti-freebsd-s@BITart.com References: Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sameer R. Manek wrote: > Does anyone have any suggestions on how to have 802.11 wireless for > home users? Naturally it should be supported by FreeBSD. > Configuruation can be done on any pc os though. > > My only affordable solution so far is to use the Apple AirPort base > station, and wavelan pcmcia cards, but I don't know if they can > co-exist, and the AirPort needs a Macintosh to configure. My idea of > affordable for this is less then $500, the lucent wavelan solution > works out to about $900 startup, that's a little out of my budget. > Have not tried it myself, but several EMails in th past indicate you do not need an AirPort. Just use a PCI/PCMCIA adapter with a wavelan card in your server (supposed to work with FreeBSD) and a wavelan in the laptop. Search the archives. Gerd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message