From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Sep 3 20:24:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cgi.sstar.com (cgi.sstar.com [209.205.176.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5490F37B423 for ; Sun, 3 Sep 2000 20:24:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bluto.jimking.net (bluto.jimking.net [216.54.255.8]) by cgi.sstar.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA16504; Sun, 3 Sep 2000 22:24:30 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jim@jimking.net) Received: from marble (marble.lgc.com [134.132.228.4]) by bluto.jimking.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA99979; Sun, 3 Sep 2000 22:24:28 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jim@jimking.net) Message-ID: <02b401c0161f$a2bb1220$04e48486@marble> From: "Jim King" To: "Sameer R. Manek" , References: Subject: Re: affordable wireless Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 22:24:27 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Does anyone have any suggestions on how to have 802.11 wireless for home > users? Naturally it should be supported by FreeBSD. Configuruation can be > done on any pc os though. > > My only affordable solution so far is to use the Apple AirPort base station, > and wavelan pcmcia cards, but I don't know if they can co-exist, and the > AirPort needs a Macintosh to configure. My idea of affordable for this is > less then $500, the lucent wavelan solution works out to about $900 startup, > that's a little out of my budget. Check out the stuff at www.buffalotech.com. Their plain base station is $279, and is supposed to be compatible with anything that uses 802.11b, so hopefully it would work with the Lucent cards (about $190 each?). I haven't used their stuff or read any reviews on it, I just ran across one of their ads today. Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message