From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 2 05:38:33 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 68AC016A41F for ; Tue, 2 Aug 2005 05:38:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B4CC43D45 for ; Tue, 2 Aug 2005 05:38:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 489AF5DC8; Tue, 2 Aug 2005 01:38:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 53932-06; Tue, 2 Aug 2005 01:38:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-54-113.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.54.113]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C28F75CBF; Tue, 2 Aug 2005 01:38:30 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <42EF06D6.70506@mac.com> Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 01:38:30 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jamie Ann P. Zamodio" References: <20050802051224.32255.qmail@web50307.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050802051224.32255.qmail@web50307.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wireless access points for FreeBSD 4.3? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 05:38:33 -0000 Jamie Ann P. Zamodio wrote: > Hi, I've been searching the web for compatible > wireless access points for FreeBSD 4.3. As of yet I've > been unsuccessful in finding any kind of list. However > we do have the following base stations in our lab: FreeBSD 4.3 dates back to early 2001: you are strongly advised to update to 4.11 or 5.4. Not only will a lot more wireless devices work under a version released in 2005, you even can take advantage of the NDISulator ("Project Evil") to run Windows XP drivers under FreeBSD. Anyway, if you are stuck using 4.3 for unimaginable reasons, I suspect the atheros or PRISM-2/2.5 chipsets are what you are looking for. > Is there any way I can configure my FreeBSD 4.3 server > to see any one of these? The set-up is, my server and > base station are connected to a wired network, and > then I have a wireless client running on Red Hat Linux > 9 contacting the server through the wireless access > point. > Your question doesn't make it entirely clear whether you are looking for a wireless card/NIC for a FreebSD machine to talk to a base station, or whether you are having an issue sending traffic to or from a wired FreeBSD machine to some other Linux box via basestation to wireless...? It may be the case that you want to bridge or NAT a wireless subnet onto your LAN, but you should consult your basestation's docs for how to do that; FreeBSD would use nothing but normal TCP/IP routing to the basestation. -- -Chuck