From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Sep 4 21:29: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from zaphon.llamas.net (zaphon.llamas.net [207.203.36.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BF1C037B42C for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2000 21:29:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 6166 invoked by uid 1001); 5 Sep 2000 04:28:59 -0000 Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 21:28:59 -0700 From: Greg Rumple To: gerti-freebsd-s@BITart.com Cc: "Sameer R. Manek" , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: affordable wireless Message-ID: <20000904212859.H2956@zaphon.llamas.net> References: <20000904031125.26416.qmail@camelot.bitart.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20000904031125.26416.qmail@camelot.bitart.com>; from gerti@bitart.com on Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 10:11:25PM -0500 X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Editor: Vim http://www.vim.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Gerd Knops (gerti@bitart.com) [000905 04:12]: > 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. This is fine as long as you only wanna use one card, this is what they refer to as running in AD-HOC mode. Cost wise, there is very little difference between this and buying a apple airport base station (which I am typing this e-mail through right now from my laptop running FreeBSD 4.1). Since a card will run you 160-190 and a ISA pcmcia bridge will cost you 60-90 dollars, and a PCI pcmcia bridge is even more. The airport is only 299 dollars. > Just use a PCI/PCMCIA adapter with a wavelan card in your server > (supposed to work with FreeBSD) and a wavelan in the laptop. -- Greg Rumple grumple@zaphon.llamas.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message