From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Jul 18 22: 8:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B6B337B400 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 22:08:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from quack.kfu.com (adsl-67-113-12-90.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [67.113.12.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A68543E4A for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 22:08:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nsayer@quack.kfu.com) Received: from morpheus.kfu.com (morpheus.kfu.com [IPv6:3ffe:1200:301b:1:2d0:b7ff:fe3f:bdd0]) by quack.kfu.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6J58ZKi037323 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK); Thu, 18 Jul 2002 22:08:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nsayer@quack.kfu.com) Received: from quack.kfu.com (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by morpheus.kfu.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6J58UrK000645; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 22:08:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nsayer@quack.kfu.com) Message-ID: <3D379ECE.4030203@quack.kfu.com> Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 22:08:30 -0700 From: Nick Sayer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020606 X-Accept-Language: en, en-US, en-GB MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warren Block , mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Orinoco RG-1000 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I don't recommend them. They're like the (1st gen) Apple Airport, but with some rather silly firmware restrictions -- you can't change the network name and such. You'd do much better to get a Prism II PCI card (available from various manufacturers, including NetGear, Linksys, USR, SMC) and put it in a FreeBSD machine and use the HostAP functionality. You'd be able to set up your own firewall and/or NAT and/or file service and/or IPv6 gateway and/or whatever. Warren Block wrote: > There may be one of these "residential gateways" available to me at a > low price. Any thoughts on using it as an access point with FreeBSD > 4.6? I don't need the modem, don't need NAT, just thought it would be > fun to play with wireless on my LAN. It looks like this would do the > job. > > Also: thoughts on 16-bit PCCards to use with it? Maybe the $35 Proxim > from JustDeals? > > -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message