Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 20:38:53 -0700 (PDT) From: twig les <twigles@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Wireless PCI card support (pcmcia to a lesser degree) Message-ID: <20031017033853.41211.qmail@web10107.mail.yahoo.com>
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OK, I'm a noob at wireless so I poked around Google and the lists and got a nice netgear 401 pcmcia card and accompanying AP; they work great. But having only one laptop I need a wireless PCI card to tinker with things like Kismet/BSD air tools and setting up my laptop as an AP with IPSec...ya know, all the fun stuff (I do NOT break into systems). To this end I have spent multiple hours online googling to find a PCI card that I know will work. I have also bought and returned a DLINK 520 (not the +) after reading that it worked, then trying it and finding out they pulled the old chipset switch-a-roo. I now have a nice new SMC 2602W, and from googling the lists I see that SMC changed it's chipset also. There is a point to this inane babbling...I was wondering if there is a central web page I'm missing that has somewhat current status on the state of wireless card support. Specifically: Which cards use which chipsets and how to find out before we buy them? Which companies actually increment/change their product numbers when they switch chipsets? What is the status of non-wi drivers in FreeBSD? Like the adm driver I think I now need for this $60 paperweight I bought. Maybe even the contact info for companies so we can send our gripes to them instead of to each other :). I'll start: http://www.smc.com/index.cfm?action=techsupport_contact They even have Linux in the dropdown menu in their little form (*BSD is expecting too much) which in this case probably covers us driver-support wise. ===== ----------------------------------------------------------- Get a taste of Religion ... eat a priest! ----------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com
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