Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 18:40:43 +1100 From: Michael Vince <mv@roq.com> To: James Earl <james@icionline.ca> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting up FreeBSD wireless for sales person Message-ID: <438C05FB.8040807@roq.com> In-Reply-To: <c6bf2550511251106n36464455k327fc8425db086e2@mail.gmail.com> References: <c6bf2550511251106n36464455k327fc8425db086e2@mail.gmail.com>
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For FreeBSD 6 check out this wireless documentation http://www.freebsdmall.com/~loader/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/wireless/article.html as well as the offical handbook one, http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html That wireless device does appear to be atheros based so you wont need to use the ndis driver with project evil but can use a native FreeBSD driver. I would recommend using dhcp setup with the wireless device, if you need something more easy then that then you will probably have to roll your own. Mike James Earl wrote: >Hi, > >I'm setting up a sales person's notebook with a wireless card. This >sales person travels around and usually stays in hotels. He needs to >be able to connect to the hotel's internet connection whether it be a >wired or wireless connection. I previously had him running OpenBSD >with a Sierra AirCard (would've been FreeBSD but I couldn't get it >working :). > >I picked up a D-Link DWL-AG660. I currently have FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE >on the notebook. I see the DWL-AG660 isn't detected by 6-RELEASE, >hopefully just because it needs to have the device ids added? > >I don't have much experience with running a wireless setup with >FreeBSD so I thought I'd seek your thoughts on whether I should turn >this guy loose with FreeBSD and wireless, or if I should just put >win98 on it for him. I imagine there may be cases where he'd have to >change ssid's depending on the hotel network he's connecting to... >which may complicate things... although I see there's some GNOME >wireless applets which may work with FreeBSD? > >I guess the key question is whether it's possible to set this up to be >user friendly enough for a non-technical person... the less >interaction, the better? >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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