From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 30 17:12:27 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 753651065705 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:12:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd.user@seibercom.net) Received: from mail-yi0-f54.google.com (mail-yi0-f54.google.com [209.85.218.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D12658FC1E for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:12:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yie12 with SMTP id 12so706858yie.13 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:12:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.236.199.227 with SMTP id x63mr1966580yhn.275.1301505146090; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:12:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scorpio.seibercom.net (twdp-174-109-142-001.nc.res.rr.com [174.109.142.1]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id t35sm135532yhg.29.2011.03.30.10.12.25 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:12:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scorpio (zeus [192.168.1.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: FreeBSD.user@scorpio.seibercom.net) by scorpio.seibercom.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7671CE54809 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:12:23 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:12:23 -0400 From: Jerry To: FreeBSD Message-ID: <20110330131223.07f13bb3@scorpio> In-Reply-To: <1892767898.53772.1301502751849.JavaMail.seven@ap4.trial.red.7sys.net> References: <1892767898.53772.1301502751849.JavaMail.seven@ap4.trial.red.7sys.net> Organization: seibercom.net X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.8 (GTK+ 2.22.1; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.2) Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAJFBMVEUeH4oAAI3//v8LDHmw s8gyNZ/b3ej7+vn+/v////+PjIc8Plaj/TnQAAACNElEQVQ4jaXUvW/aQBQAcFtKGZLFT+YY 3D1SR9SKoRMncE3IggU4kicGi1JYOgQwyYrgnLlSzhsoNkTuVJEp+ef6ztiAoV3aJ+QPfufn s987S/5fQvoXYPjztmfc514Ks+5JfGUCfrzt4+VabF+jwEV4DGEXN8N4p16sPLxHX07/V3qX yfF5D2H6K4V8j9NkyAphvkjBembD5PDFk3zeTzP1jcksyaV9w+d4ELmUoOp8N2p8uQVyhTAT uawnKNH2mie5lJp48mscUcbJUvg0mR6APwAoye9AMyWozY4gAh0vcxa5FJ4TKCuODESWtfkB 8AEQSupUXNIYH8FSC2w8X3eMBNbbVJpJ7MgECO5yJ9DUEWCYkzNAlsRsgwLQ1GkWqELbkDOh 1bUzoHagYkNh9MXlK/MQoA42gTxz2bhPM2DJedm8MZx6cNfJgEZJ5cmwPp5FZ/Ye8O2qTrFV dgOrHkZRBoheJiGrRquwAhnQ6GeTePPerWVmQelAQ5lwNqtvQd2lcooAV74/zR1BIRS19fy5 ru+B/8ReW9pYKMPjt609zDaitHHTGOO+Zu7gHvsKE7XbeE1QVuJXomIFuZgUJdXQdhpqEELc /e8RLjfi+cQ01yMdWot8UcCVxEWHEkcUrsDGuhaIEoM9kfgAR6jxHcmEV7tNURAl8KTHN9iF McKGFHGO62O62UMpbmlVuogQ7ndL8zXCiLeBy3xpfrqaXS/+AHDG4o8AvhuPeezD/3xL/hy/ Adjlg2odglF2AAAAAElFTkSuQmCC Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: FreeBSD List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:12:27 -0000 On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 09:32:29 -0700 (PDT) four.harrisons@googlemail.com articulated: > Once you've scaled the learning curve, you will appreciate how easy > it is to achieve things with FreeBSD compared to other OS which > attempt to make things 'easy' for you (wireless networking springs to > mind - in my experience if Windows can't do it 'automagically' then > you haven't a hope in hell of finding out what's wrong and fixing it). You have conveniently left out the part that if the OS does not have a driver for the wireless card, specifically "N" protocol cards, then you haven't any hope of getting it to work, period. In any case, the easiest way to get any wireless card to work in Windows, at least up to Win-7, was to deactivate the Windows wireless utility and use the one that accompanies the device, assuming that it does come with a configuration utility. I have not seen any of the top rated ones that did not. If for some reason that did not work, you could still manually enter any of the specific information manually, assuming that you actually took the time to learn (where did I here that term before) how to accomplish it. -- Jerry ✌ FreeBSD.user@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __________________________________________________________________ In an orderly world, there's always a place for the disorderly.