From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Nov 24 19: 6:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from po4.glue.umd.edu (po4.glue.umd.edu [128.8.10.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CA0F37B405; Sat, 24 Nov 2001 19:06:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from glue.umd.edu (darkstar.umd.edu [128.8.215.163]) by po4.glue.umd.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id fAP36X406333; Sat, 24 Nov 2001 22:06:48 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C006044.E255201@glue.umd.edu> Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 22:06:44 -0500 From: Brandon Fosdick X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wayne Pascoe Cc: "Leonard C." , questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Wireless LAN cards? References: <86pu69iy4m.fsf@pan.ehsrealtime.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message