From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 3 15:36:30 2003 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 5E50D16A4CE for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2003 15:36:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net (rwcrmhc12.comcast.net [216.148.227.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCAAA43FBF for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2003 15:36:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paulbeard@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (12-231-115-57.client.attbi.com[12.231.115.57]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc12) with SMTP id <2003110323362601400cgu7se>; Mon, 3 Nov 2003 23:36:27 +0000 Message-ID: <3FA6E677.8050609@mac.com> Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 15:36:23 -0800 From: paul beard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031103 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20031103181419.36655.qmail@web40612.mail.yahoo.com> <20031103220658.GB7510@stderror.at> In-Reply-To: <20031103220658.GB7510@stderror.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Recommendations for wireless networking and 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, 03 Nov 2003 23:36:30 -0000 Toni Schmidbauer wrote: > On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 10:14:19AM -0800, John DeStefano wrote: > > >> I've just moved into an apartment in which drilling and >> running wires is taboo. Has anyone delved successfully into >> the realms of wireless networking their FreeBSD groups? My >> main server is running 4.8-STABLE, and I have a client >> machine running 5.1-RELEASE (which has been suspect to a lack >> of driver support for its onboard NIC in FBSD anyway), but I >> am not married to any of these releases and would >> up/downgrade if a solution was available. I'd also prefer a >> Wireless-G access point and adapter solution if possible, as >> opposed to the much slower B solutions available. > > > man 4 wi. there you can find a list of support cards. man 4 an has the straight dope on the aironet driver: I have been using it for awhile with FreeBSD 4.4 - 4.8. -- Paul Beard whois -h whois.networksolutions.com ha=pb202 A formal parsing algorithm should not always be used. -- D. Gries