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Date:      Sun, 20 Apr 2003 15:08:08 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Craig St. Jean" <sordonline@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Wireless Internet Recommendation Question
Message-ID:  <20030420150635.I631@znfgre.tberna.bet>
In-Reply-To: <20030420215400.83891.qmail@web10208.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20030420215400.83891.qmail@web10208.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Sun, 20 Apr 2003, Craig St. Jean wrote:

> Hello, I have a desktop PC and like using the USB
> wireless internet devices however they are unsupported
> and unusable to my knowledge in FreeBSD. I have been
> looking at the Linksys WPC11 and the Netgear MA401
> PCMIA cards. If I were to buy one of those, would it
> work with a PCI adapter or ISA adapter (because I do
> not have a PCMIA bus) and if so, which one should I
> buy?

If you want a PCI card, just get the MA 311 from Netgear. It has the same
guts as the MA 401, and works quite well in freebsd. I posted recently on
this, and included information about flashing the firmware in a windows
machine before you install it in freebsd.

Hope this helps,

Doug

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