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Date:      Thu, 25 Jul 2002 15:40:22 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Ed Yu <edlyu@yahoo.com>
To:        Ray Seals <rseals@vdsi.net>, MET <met@uberstats.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD and Wireless Networking
Message-ID:  <20020725224022.19266.qmail@web20704.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <1027632580.283.83.camel@trsealslptp1>

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I'm not running a FreeBSD laptop but while I was
running a Linux laptop I found that I can connect to
my access point with no problem in Ad-Hoc mode, but
not Infrastructure mode with WEP. I assume it is the
same in FreeBSD. It depends on your card. Mine was
Addtronics.

-ed

--- Ray Seals <rseals@vdsi.net> wrote:
> I have been able to connect my FreeBSD 4.6 Laptop to
> both Cisco Aironet
> access points as well as the cheaper Linksys WAP11
> (which I own).  I
> have used both Intel Wireless PCMCIA nics as well as
> Linksys.  The Intel
> card was a little tricky but I was running FreeBSD
> 4.4 then.  It's much
> better under 4.6
> 
> Ray
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 16:29, MET wrote:
> > Does FreeBSD allow and or follow the standards for
> wireless networking?
> >  
> > - Matthew
> >  
> >  
> >
>
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> >  
> >       Matthew Metnetsky
> >  
> >       met@uberstats.com
> >  
> >
>
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