From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 7 09:19:46 2006 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 0852616A404 for ; Sun, 7 May 2006 09:19:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lars.udo@gmail.com) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.224]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4603143D55 for ; Sun, 7 May 2006 09:19:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lars.udo@gmail.com) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i24so804307wra for ; Sun, 07 May 2006 02:19:44 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=kkQp+MH6yH9Iak80sMNjJ6JQqQkwM77W/yHBAV094uAZg9CoBl6G7b0A8LV9Z0TNqmxzGX3UxWXfVGD2lk7MS+ksqJ78qohxu4wW63z2tuVO2i28hkQNgwwZ5ZqMZ8oo9+pUkonWx8KqRO/VO34GePq+FGav7XCZxFnJdolnqGk= Received: by 10.54.116.17 with SMTP id o17mr1098547wrc; Sun, 07 May 2006 02:19:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.106.9 with HTTP; Sun, 7 May 2006 02:19:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2fef08390605070219i1b7acf96paa17087a0cde7bc5@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 7 May 2006 12:19:44 +0300 From: "Lars Udo" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: wlan on lowend laptop 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: Sun, 07 May 2006 09:19:46 -0000 i have a litlle problem with all these wires running here and there in my flat, and as i got a woman living here with me.. i cant stand her complaining about those ugly wires allover the house. One beautiful day, i decided to get involved with wlan. But this one linux-dude said that my p233mmx/64ram couldnt run wlan. I dont know if he ment WAP/WEP-encryption a= s he couldnt be any spesific and that got me thinking if he even knows anything. My setup these days is following: 1Ghz/256ddr (Desktop mahcine, with ssh Xforwarding) via 10Mbit LAN, and my laptop just happens to get a lot faster when i run all apps on that desktop-pc. My desktop is FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE and laptop has NetBSD 3.0 with standalone X & few apps just to survive if my desktop-pc is down. I'm planning to change into FreeNX if it gives any advantage, but that would require to replace my laptop with freebsd as it i= s my favorite OS that has FreeNX client. Is it possible to keep up with this setup with changin all the wires with wireless-future. If WAP/WEP is the problem, couldn i just leave it out and use IPsec, or ssh instead? Or is WAP/WEP mandatory, or is it just enough if i set tight firewall-rules on both ends of wlan with IPsec, so no one could intrude into my system. If all goes well, my next sted would be to include one windows-pc also.. an= d that would need firewall for local wlan-crackers but somehow i dont believe that as a minor threat :) Lasse