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Date:      Sun, 10 Mar 2002 22:59:43 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To:        A Ling <fbsd2@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Inexpensive PCI 802.11b NIC recommendations?
Message-ID:  <20020311065943.GA63125@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020311053614.77022.qmail@web20205.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20020311053614.77022.qmail@web20205.mail.yahoo.com>

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* A Ling <fbsd2@yahoo.com> [020310 21:36] wrote:
>   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

I used an Addtron pci card and wrote the initial probe/attach
for it, it seemed to work somewhat ok.  Last I checked they
were pretty darn cheap, probably even more so now.

-Alfred

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