Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 19:11:26 -0500 From: "Pratt, Benjamin E." <bepratt@stcloudstate.edu> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Wireless (newbie questions) Message-ID: <F7DC392AFB62C54D840C5F366ED8D04D057DE8@exchange2003.campus.stcloudstate.edu>
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Hello everyone, I'm very new to this whole wireless thing (I know, I'm = late to the game) and I was just looking at buying my first PCMCIA = 802.11g card. I want something that can use an external antenna so I've = been looking at a Proxim Orinoco card = (http://www.proxim.com/products/wifi/client/11bgpccard/index.html). It = appears as though this card will work with FreeBSD but I just wanted to = verify this. I've also got a friend who's done some wireless things before and he = uses Linux and therefore Kismet. I see that FreeBSD has a port for = bsd-airtools but I'm not sure if that's all that I'd need. I'd like to = be able to sniff for traffic without sending any data out (he does this = with Kismet) in order to not be detected. He has said that netstumbler = sends out can't do this and bsd-airtools likens itself to netstumbler so = I was wondering if bsd-airtools has these limitations as well. Anyone have any comments about the card I'm looking at or the = functionality of bsd-airtools?? Thanks, Ben=20
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