Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 22:59:43 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> To: A Ling <fbsd2@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Inexpensive PCI 802.11b NIC recommendations? Message-ID: <20020311065943.GA63125@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <20020311053614.77022.qmail@web20205.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20020311053614.77022.qmail@web20205.mail.yahoo.com>
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* A Ling <fbsd2@yahoo.com> [020310 21:36] wrote: > Someone in my family who shall remain nameless wants > to move their Win98 box 2 walls and a ceiling away > from the 4.5-stable Internet gateway, between which it > turns out to be inconvenient to run cat-5. I'd like > to solve this by dropping a couple of Wi-Fi PCI NICs > into these desktops (who knows where the Win box may > move next). From what I've read, external antenna > connectors would be desirable in case the walls are > too thick, etc. Source for if_wi.c seems to suggest > the Linksys WMP-11 native PCI card is already > supported as of the recent big MFC, and I get the I used an Addtron pci card and wrote the initial probe/attach for it, it seemed to work somewhat ok. Last I checked they were pretty darn cheap, probably even more so now. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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