From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 23 2:25:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clientmail.realtime.co.uk (simian.realtime.co.uk [213.52.146.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F0A837B418; Fri, 23 Nov 2001 02:25:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from pan.ehsrealtime.com ([213.52.146.196]) by clientmail.realtime.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 167DWk-0005XK-01; Fri, 23 Nov 2001 10:25:46 +0000 Received: from waynep by pan.ehsrealtime.com with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 167DUw-0000GY-00; Fri, 23 Nov 2001 10:23:54 +0000 From: Wayne Pascoe To: "Leonard C." Cc: , Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Wireless LAN cards? References: Date: 23 Nov 2001 10:23:53 +0000 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <86pu69iy4m.fsf@pan.ehsrealtime.com> Lines: 29 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Leonard C." writes: > I'm looking into setting up a wireless Ethernet network. I've seen network > access points available for around $120-140 for a cheap Linksys. > > However, it seems to me that it'd be probably cheaper just to buy a desktop > wireless Ethernet card and use FreeBSD as a bridge and a DHCP server. > > Has anybody tried this before and have any recommendations on cards which > play well with FreeBSD and which to avoid? I've not seen any desktop wireless ethernet cards. What you generally have to do is buy a pcmcia card and an ISA - PCMCIA converter for the PC. I have been warned in the past to use ISA and not PCI. I'm not sure if PCI is supported yet. Getting it all going is really easy. I went with Lucent Orinoco silver cards. The main difference (that I know of) between the silver and gold cards is encryption strength. As WEP is broken anyhows, no big deal :) Just use a ipsec tunnel. HTH -- - Wayne Pascoe | Mary had a crypto key, she kept freebsd@molemanarmy.com | it in escrow, and everything that Mary http://www.molemanarmy.com | said, the Feds were sure to know. | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message