From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 4 17:11:28 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 8161116A4CE for ; Tue, 4 May 2004 17:11:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailgw-20.stcloudstate.edu (mailgw-20.stcloudstate.edu [199.17.25.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 023A543D31 for ; Tue, 4 May 2004 17:11:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bepratt@stcloudstate.edu) Received: from exchange7.campus.stcloudstate.edu [199.17.25.221] by mailgw-20.stcloudstate.edu with XWall v3.29 ; Tue, 4 May 2004 19:11:26 -0500 Received: from exchange2003.campus.stcloudstate.edu ([199.17.25.142]) by exchange7.stcloudstate.edu with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Tue, 4 May 2004 19:11:26 -0500 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.6944.0 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 19:11:26 -0500 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Wireless (newbie questions) Thread-Index: AcQyNYGk5Kaue8zcSESbk568kk+UoQ== From: "Pratt, Benjamin E." To: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 05 May 2004 00:11:26.0601 (UTC) FILETIME=[81D3BF90:01C43235] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: Wireless (newbie questions) 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: Wed, 05 May 2004 00:11:28 -0000 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