From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 16 20:38:54 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0003F16A4B3 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 20:38:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web10107.mail.yahoo.com (web10107.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.130.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6F8A743F85 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 20:38:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from twigles@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20031017033853.41211.qmail@web10107.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [68.5.49.41] by web10107.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 20:38:53 PDT Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 20:38:53 -0700 (PDT) From: twig les To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Wireless PCI card support (pcmcia to a lesser degree) X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 03:38:54 -0000 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