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Date:      Sat, 24 Nov 2001 22:06:44 -0500
From:      Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@glue.umd.edu>
To:        Wayne Pascoe <freebsd@molemanarmy.com>
Cc:        "Leonard C." <leonardc@uclink4.berkeley.edu>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD and Wireless LAN cards?
Message-ID:  <3C006044.E255201@glue.umd.edu>
References:  <HHEKIBIGHICPGLHFMKKJKEJPCKAA.leonardc@uclink4.berkeley.edu> <86pu69iy4m.fsf@pan.ehsrealtime.com>

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Wayne Pascoe wrote:
> 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.

I think most, if not all, PCI adapter cards are working as of 4.4-R. Well, at
least my miniPCI card works now.

IIRC, the wireless cards are around US$60-$70 and the adapter cards are
somewhere around $50. So its almost just as cheap to go with a dedicated
basestation. Of course, I haven't looked at prices in a while, so they could
have gone down.

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