From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Sep 3 9:32:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from quack.kfu.com (quack.kfu.com [205.178.90.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6200037B403 for ; Mon, 3 Sep 2001 09:32:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from morpheus.kfu.com (morpheus.kfu.com [3ffe:1200:301b:1:2d0:b7ff:fe3f:bdd0]) by quack.kfu.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f83GWXt69115 (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168 bits) verified OK); Mon, 3 Sep 2001 09:32:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nsayer@quack.kfu.com) Received: from quack.kfu.com (nospam@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by morpheus.kfu.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f83GWXi07174; Mon, 3 Sep 2001 09:32:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nsayer@quack.kfu.com) Message-ID: <3B93B0A0.6030403@quack.kfu.com> Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2001 09:32:32 -0700 From: Nick Sayer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010804 X-Accept-Language: en, en-US, en-GB MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warner Losh Cc: Michelle Brownsworth , Leo Clark , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Orinoco PCI cards and FreeBSD-STABLE References: <20010901122434.H13110@cogit8.org> <200109020011.f820Bph16778@harmony.village.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org For what it's worth, you may wish to consider buying a Netgear MA401/MA301 combination instead. The MA301 PCI adapter is not actually a pcic, so it doesn't rely on or interact with Warner's recent changes. This gives it an ever-so-slightly higher chance of being a trouble-free installation (though to be fair I never had any trouble during the recent period of relative upheaval). The downsides are that you need a recent RELENG_4 tree for this device to work and it is not hot-pluggable like pcics are and the driver does not support inserting any card other than a Prism2 802.11b card. I believe this combination may be had cheaper than Orinoccos as well. And it has "Gold" equivalent WEP (though even that should be regarded as plaintext nowadays). The only downside is that the Windows driver for the Netgear stuff is not plumbed to handle roaming (that is, multiple profiles with different SSID and WEP settings) as nicely as the Orinocco stuff is (of course this is entirely irrelevant under FreeBSD). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message