Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 23:16:36 -0800 (PST) From: Bill-Schoolcraft <bill@wiliweld.com> To: Jan Henrik Sylvester <me@janh.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.2 -- Linksys wusb11 wireless supported? (oh no!) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701272311460.6609@liam.billschoolcraft.com> In-Reply-To: <45BBEF69.10408@janh.de> References: <45BBEF69.10408@janh.de>
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At Sun, 28 Jan 2007 it looks like Jan Henrik Sylvester composed: > The only usb wlan driver in FreeBSD is ural (Ralink RT2500USB). Also, ndis > (Windows driver wrapper) does not work for usb devices. Thus, you are out of > luck. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Open_Source_Wireless_Drivers > > (Some people seem to be working on porting rum and zyd from OpenBSD to > FreeBSD, but that won't help you, either.) Oh... that is very disappointing. I have my laptop triple booted with Windows-2000, Knoppix-5.1.1 and FreeBSD-6.2 and was going to show off FreeBSD's network speed as a comparison test to show my coworkers that Linux and 2000 is not the only option. :( -- Bill Schoolcraft <*> http://wiliweld.com ~ "Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity." (Dennis Ritchie)
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