Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 23:38:57 -0400 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Finding a wireless lan card Message-ID: <17079.35793.697409.175239@guru.mired.org>
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I recently asked for help finding a wireless lan card. I got a couple of solid suggestions, some suggestions on buying a "wireless ethernet bridge", and a "wireless lan master list" for Linux systems. Since my solution was none of the above, I wanted to post it so it would show up in the search engines. The Linux wireless lan master list was rather long, and turned out to be pretty useless. Some of the chipsets listed don't have FreeBSD drivers; some of the drivers FreeBSD has aren't on that list. Further, as others noted here, sonme some of the manufacturers rev chipsets - or even change chipsets completely(!) without changing the product identification. What I wound up doing was buying a Wireless Access Point from Linksys, which could be set to "bridge mode". Turns out it only bridges to products from the same company. It does, however, have an "AP client" mode that doesn't have that restriction. That lets me survey the local wireless networks, chose one, and connect to it. Worked like a charm. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information.
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