From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Jul 18 22:22:30 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 883AE37B400 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 22:22:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from moek.pir.net (moek.pir.net [130.64.1.215]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8B4E43E6A for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 22:22:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pir@pir.net) Received: from pir by moek.pir.net with local (Exim) id 17VQDj-00054E-00 for mobile@freebsd.org; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 01:22:27 -0400 Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 01:22:27 -0400 From: Peter Radcliffe To: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Orinoco RG-1000 Message-ID: <20020719052227.GA18034@pir.net> Reply-To: mobile@freebsd.org Mail-Followup-To: mobile@freebsd.org References: <3D379ECE.4030203@quack.kfu.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D379ECE.4030203@quack.kfu.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-fish: < X-Copy-On-Listmail: Please do NOT Cc: me on list mail. 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 Nick Sayer probably said: > 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. Strongly seconded. I've also seen a lot of them turn into bricks (be about as useful for passing packets as a brick). > 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. Well, IMO that depends if you already have a machine you want to leave turned on, how much money you want to spend, etc. I find it more convenient to have small dedicated wireless hardware, others find it better/cheaper to use cards and HostAP. Preference thing. If you're just experimenting then HostAP is certainly cheaper. P. -- pir pir-sig@pir.net pir-sig@net.tufts.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message