Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 13:27:31 +1000 From: Michael Vince <michael@roq.com> To: anon anon <anonymous_messiah@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wireless card recommendation for laptop Message-ID: <4334C7A3.9050108@roq.com> In-Reply-To: <BAY109-F2367FBF2917DB0A7CFB8008B940@phx.gbl> References: <BAY109-F2367FBF2917DB0A7CFB8008B940@phx.gbl>
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I bought the Netgear WG511T because it said 'Atheros' on the box and it couldn't of worked out as a better card for me. It was my first time using wireless and I was setup on my newly setup wireless access point not much less then a minute on FreeBSD 6 with this card. I simply followed the instructions for the FreeBSD 6 wireless handbook and I was on. http://www.freebsdmall.com/~loader/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/wireless/article.html The only difference I did between what is said here is I loaded all the kernel drviers as modules only instead of compiling them into the kernel. I set it up using the latest WPA encryption mode and had it all automagicly working with DHCP as well using the ifconfig_ath0="DHCP WPA" setting in rc.conf Yeah the older WEP encryption worked for me as well but it didn't work using it via dhcp for some reason I have had to manually set it via ifconfig command and set a route. Cheers, Mike anon anon wrote: > Im currently looking to purchase a wireless card, preferably mini-pci > for my thinkpad R40. Are there any well supported mpi/pcmcia cards for > fbsd. Please don’t mention the cisco mpi350 as this card has not > worked for me since 4.10. This card only works for about 5 minutes or > until it is placed under reasonable load. It then timeouts and cannot > be brought up unless the system is power cycled. And yes, I have > downgraded the firmware to 5.00.1 or whatever it is numerous times. I > need a card that is known to work without problems under 5.x. > > Cheers > > _________________________________________________________________ > Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's > FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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