Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 22:08:05 -0500 From: Chris <racerx@makeworld.com> To: "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD Wireless Message-ID: <200410222208.05898.racerx@makeworld.com> In-Reply-To: <200410222203.36326.algould@datawok.com> References: <20041023101555.969B.LUKEK@meibin.net> <200410222021.35476.racerx@makeworld.com> <200410222203.36326.algould@datawok.com>
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On Friday 22 October 2004 10:03 pm, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > On Friday 22 October 2004 08:21 pm, Chris wrote: > > On Friday 22 October 2004 08:17 pm, Luke Kearney wrote: > > > Hi List, > > > I am looking to purchase a wireless PCI card for a new machine here > > > at my home. I was wondering if anyone can share sucess or horror > > > stories about the Elecom range of products. I am wanting to use one > > > machine as the access point and one machine as the client. I wasn't > > > planing to deploy a hardware access point though if the consensus > > > is that a hardware access point is the better way to go I could > > > certainly start looking at this. > > > > > > Thanks > > > > Just read what hardware is supported to date, buy it, then you can't > > go wrong. Pretty easy, aye? > > Sadly, no. Vendor's have changed chipsets without changing model > numbers or documenting the chipsets used on retail boxes. Further, > many of the pci cards that are documented as being compatible with > FreeBSD are no longer easy to find. > > The advantages of a hardware access point include: > > 1. Access and firewall configuration are done easily via a web browser. > 2. They are OS-neutral. > > For anyone running FreeBSD 5* who needs a new wireless card (pci or > pccard), I would suggest looking at the D-Link products that use the > Atheros chipset. D-Link is displaying the Atheros logo on the retail > boxes, which lowers the risk of a bad purchasing decision. > > (I'm not an advocate for D-Link or Atheros; but I am in favor of more > useful information on retail boxes.) I prefer NetGear - woiks well for me... -- Best regards, Chris Recent studies suggest that running /usr/bin/coffee from cron at regular intervals can be more effective at enhancing uptime than launching a big coffeed process at startup.
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