From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 6 09:07:08 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C58AD16A4CE for ; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 09:07:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from firecrest.mail.pas.earthlink.net (firecrest.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.121.247]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1140643D54 for ; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 09:07:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from algould@datawok.com) Received: from 20-74.lctv-b4.cablelynx.com ([24.204.20.74] helo=yoda.datawok.com) by firecrest.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1Ap9Q6-0002Pi-00; Fri, 06 Feb 2004 09:05:34 -0800 From: "Andrew L. Gould" To: Wang , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 11:05:55 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200402061105.55994.algould@datawok.com> X-ELNK-Trace: ee791d459e3d6817d780f4a490ca69564776905774d2ac4b9d2f6c5836308ac87744b34fdd5480ac350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c Subject: Re: USB Wireless Adapter support in fbsd 5.1? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 17:07:08 -0000 On Friday 06 February 2004 10:47 am, Wang wrote: > Hi, > > I get access to the Internet via a wireless connection to my router in > another room. I use a usb wireless adapter (Netgear WG121), which works > fine under Win....but I am really not sure how to get this working with > FreeBSD 5.1. I have read the manual and a few forum posts, and it seems > that USB adapters are supported by default in FreeBSD 5? Is this true, or > is there something I need to enable in the kernel? I am just not sure what > to > do in order to get this working, and until it works...my BSD box is > without inet access :(:( Could anyone help? > > when I insert the USB wireless adapter whilst sitting in a shell...I get: > > ugen1: BayNETGEAR product 0x4210, rev 2.00/2.03, addr2 > > But "ifconfig -a" reveals no wireless adapters :( > > Thanks for your time! > > Best regards > Wang ugen is the generic usb driver used when the system doesn't know better; that is, it doesn't recognize the card. I got tired of looking for compatible wireless equipment; so I use the DLink DWL900AP+. It connects to your ethernet port and is configured via web browser to act in one of 4 modes, including access point or client. This makes it OS-neutral to a great extent. (You'll need to hand enter your access points MAC address when you chose client mode -- the browse button seems to work only from Windows.) I think the newer version, DWL2000, uses 802.11g. Best of luck, Andrew Gould