From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 1 18:41:15 2005 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 3CDDD16A41F for ; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:41:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr13.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr13.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.33]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E82743D45 for ; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:41:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from slackbox.xs4all.nl (slackbox.xs4all.nl [213.84.242.160]) by smtp-vbr13.xs4all.nl (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id jA1IfCUV050462; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 19:41:12 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.xs4all.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 8A00AB822; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 19:41:12 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 19:41:12 +0100 From: Roland Smith To: Dick Hoogendijk Message-ID: <20051101184112.GC1889@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Mail-Followup-To: Dick Hoogendijk , freebsd-questions References: <20051101124856.GA11657@lothlorien.nagual.st> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="kfjH4zxOES6UT95V" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051101124856.GA11657@lothlorien.nagual.st> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: WiFi Nintendo-DS and FreeBSD 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: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 18:41:15 -0000 --kfjH4zxOES6UT95V Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 01:48:57PM +0100, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > In november my DS goes WiFi (in Holland). > Naturaly I want to play games that support this feature. > (MarioKart-DS i.e.) at home ;-) >=20 > The FreeBSD related question is: > My main server runs 4.11-stable, some other machines run 5.4 >=20 > What do I have to do to give this DS wireless access to the net? > What is the best approach? >=20 > Only my main server is 24/7 connected (without a hardware router;-) > Do I put a wireless card in this machine? > Is this possible or do I have to upgrade FreeBSD to 6.0 to have WiFi? > > It's all new to me (this wireless stuff). All my machines are wired. > So I can use some tips, reading points or suggestions from you. Verify that a card contains a supported chip before you buy it. some manufacturers change chipsets without changing the model number. The handbook has a section on wireless networking: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.= html Some stuff about setting up a secure connection: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.= html Apparently the standard encryption (WEP) is not very secure and easily cracked.=20 At least you should have the firewall reject any packets whose MAC address doesn't match your DS and/or laptop. And you should probably restrict the ports that can be accessed via the wireless link. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt --kfjH4zxOES6UT95V Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDZ7bIEnfvsMMhpyURAiZxAJ41ORg+tMQgZ06Nzmh0FRmGhi3K7wCgpANG /JJ+rgv2EbWz4QBJzGyARt8= =237t -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --kfjH4zxOES6UT95V--