From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 12 17:01:49 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 B01F516A4CE for ; Mon, 12 Jul 2004 17:01:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from bsdhacker.org (h71.52.102.166.ip.alltel.net [166.102.52.71]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3275343D1F for ; Mon, 12 Jul 2004 17:01:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from uidzero@one-arm.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bsdhacker.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE22B194; Mon, 12 Jul 2004 12:00:13 -0500 (CDT) Received: from bsdhacker.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (server.bsdhacker.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 98419-07; Mon, 12 Jul 2004 12:00:12 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (bsd.bsdhacker.org [192.168.0.2]) by bsdhacker.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 097798D; Mon, 12 Jul 2004 12:00:12 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <40F2C3FC.1040406@one-arm.com> Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 12:01:48 -0500 From: uidzero User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.1 (X11/20040703) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Josh Ockert , FreeBSD-Questions References: <126eac4804071209551b338dad@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <126eac4804071209551b338dad@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at bsdhacker.org Subject: Re: 802.11b with FreeBSD 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: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 17:01:49 -0000 Josh Ockert wrote: >Does anyone have any suggestions on wireless cards to use with >FreeBSD? I used to have a USR 2410 but I could never get it to work >under Linux and I eventually accidentally smashed it in my messenger >bag. Now I have a WPC11v4 piece of tripe with the Realtek chipset, for >which Realtek only release drivers for Redhat Linux. But it's flaky >anyway -- it seems like it's resetting the card every time the >configuration changes, and it is constantly searching for different >access points, so I constantly get little bumps in wireless service >and it often disconnects me from clients requiring persistent >connections (messenger services, etc) -- so I want to get a new card. >I'd like to be able to use this card on FreeBSD, because I'd really >like to ditch Windows. > >I'm looking at a "Cisco Aironet 350 PCM352 Wireless PC Card" on ebay. >Has anyone ever actually gotten this to work on FreeBSD? What about a >pre-v4 WPC11? Any success with the D-Link DWL-650 (and if so, any >chipset or other caveats with that?)? > >Any help would be appreciated. >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > On my laptop, I use the D-Link DWL-650 and on my desktop, I use the Linksys WPM11. Michael -- Michael D. Whities uidzero@one-arm.com http://www.one-arm.com -- There are four colors of hats to watch for: Black, White, Grey, and Red. The meanings are: Cracker, Hacker, Guru, and Victim.