From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Sep 9 9:14:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from inc.net (mailhost.inc.net [204.95.160.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC52A15CA1 for ; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 09:12:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steve@inc.net) Received: from inc.net (niki.noc.inc.net [204.95.194.201]) by inc.net (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA20679; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:11:49 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <37D7DD83.41CE748C@inc.net> Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 11:17:07 -0500 From: Steve Kaczkowski Organization: inc.Net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: austin wood Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wireless Ethernet References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org austin wood wrote: > > Hello, my neighbor across the street recently got a T1 installed at his > residence. He said he would be happy to hook me up, if I could run a > cable to his house. However, I don't think it is possible to run one > across the street. So, I'm turning to wireless ethernet. Has anyone used > this, is it reliable? Diamond Multimedia has the HomeFree PCI Cards which > are only $99.95. Does anyone know the quality of this item, and is it > supported buy FreeBSD? > > Thanks, > -austin > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message At this point there isn't support for that stuff in FreeBSD, who knows, maybe some Linux hack is working on it right now. A good alternative though is WaveLAN, cards can probably be picked up for $100 or so add a couple antennas,cables,etc you'll probably hit in around $500, not too bad for a wireless solution that works... Good luck! -- Steve Kaczkowski Time Warner Telecom/inc.Net steve@inc.net (414)908-9012 http://www.inc.net (603)737-9209 Fax To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message