Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 21:36:14 -0800 (PST) From: A Ling <fbsd2@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Inexpensive PCI 802.11b NIC recommendations? Message-ID: <20020311053614.77022.qmail@web20205.mail.yahoo.com>
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Someone in my family who shall remain nameless wants to move their Win98 box 2 walls and a ceiling away from the 4.5-stable Internet gateway, between which it turns out to be inconvenient to run cat-5. I'd like to solve this by dropping a couple of Wi-Fi PCI NICs into these desktops (who knows where the Win box may move next). From what I've read, external antenna connectors would be desirable in case the walls are too thick, etc. Source for if_wi.c seems to suggest the Linksys WMP-11 native PCI card is already supported as of the recent big MFC, and I get the impression that the D-link DWL-520 might be similar enough that if it isnt already supported, its just a matter of time before that happens. Is this way off base? (Ecost has the D-link cards for $73!) Are there any other cards I should look for? I plan on running them in ad hoc mode without WEP, and dealing with security by tunnelling HTTP, SMTP, and IMAP via SSH from Win98 to FreeBSD (the SSH tunnel and Apache non-caching proxy already work fine over the existing, but soon to be obsolete 10-base T connection). I also have been assuming that support for the D-link and Linksys 802.11a PCI cards may not materialize in time for my project. Thanks in advance for your help. Alex __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! http://mail.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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