From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 29 07:40:45 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0C8616A41F for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 07:40:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mv@roq.com) Received: from vault.mel.jumbuck.com (ppp166-27.static.internode.on.net [150.101.166.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0711A43D46 for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 07:40:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mv@roq.com) Received: from vault.mel.jumbuck.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vault.mel.jumbuck.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCB2C8A065; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 18:40:31 +1100 (EST) Received: from [192.168.46.52] (unknown [192.168.46.250]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by vault.mel.jumbuck.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A948E8A064; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 18:40:31 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <438C05FB.8040807@roq.com> Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 18:40:43 +1100 From: Michael Vince User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051127 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James Earl References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting up FreeBSD wireless for sales person X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 07:40:45 -0000 For FreeBSD 6 check out this wireless documentation http://www.freebsdmall.com/~loader/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/wireless/article.html as well as the offical handbook one, http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html That wireless device does appear to be atheros based so you wont need to use the ndis driver with project evil but can use a native FreeBSD driver. I would recommend using dhcp setup with the wireless device, if you need something more easy then that then you will probably have to roll your own. Mike James Earl wrote: >Hi, > >I'm setting up a sales person's notebook with a wireless card. This >sales person travels around and usually stays in hotels. He needs to >be able to connect to the hotel's internet connection whether it be a >wired or wireless connection. I previously had him running OpenBSD >with a Sierra AirCard (would've been FreeBSD but I couldn't get it >working :). > >I picked up a D-Link DWL-AG660. I currently have FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE >on the notebook. I see the DWL-AG660 isn't detected by 6-RELEASE, >hopefully just because it needs to have the device ids added? > >I don't have much experience with running a wireless setup with >FreeBSD so I thought I'd seek your thoughts on whether I should turn >this guy loose with FreeBSD and wireless, or if I should just put >win98 on it for him. I imagine there may be cases where he'd have to >change ssid's depending on the hotel network he's connecting to... >which may complicate things... although I see there's some GNOME >wireless applets which may work with FreeBSD? > >I guess the key question is whether it's possible to set this up to be >user friendly enough for a non-technical person... the less >interaction, the better? >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >