Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 13:37:44 -0600 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> To: Will Andrews <will@csociety.org> Cc: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wireless Lan - recommendations Message-ID: <20011210133744.H92148@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <20011210142256.B23826@squall.waterspout.com>; from will@csociety.org on Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 02:22:56PM -0500 References: <200112100850.fBA8oNV85788@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <20011210142256.B23826@squall.waterspout.com>
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* Will Andrews <will@csociety.org> [011210 13:27] wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 09:50:23AM +0100, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> > What wireless network systems (hub and pccards) would you recommend
> > for notebooks equipped with FreeBSD?
> >
> > Has anyone equipped a Dell 8000 with such? I've heard the Dell 8000
> > has the antenna stuff already prepared - at least the sales person told me
> > on the phone when I ordered my Dell a couple of weeks ago.
> >
> > We want to equip our institutes site with a wireless station.
> >
> > Any recommendations?
>
> If you need cheap, the SMC 2632W Orinoco-based wi(4) card works
> great on -CURRENT (don't know about -STABLE but don't know why it
> would be any different). I got mine for $75.
>
> I can't recommend any APs, even though I have a Netgear MR314.
> The MR314 is very poor feature-wise, but it's a router, not just
> an AP. It was pretty cheap too, but I'll probably sell it and
> buy a different one.
As far as access points, I got a Addtron access point (not router)
it's labled 199$, but when I got to the counter (at Frys) they
gave it to me for like 75$. Also, there's a page for configurating
it from a unix box using SNMP so you don't need to windows to do
it.
--
-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology,"
start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'
http://www.morons.org/rants/gpl-harmful.php3
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