Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 19:40:06 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jamie Ann P. Zamodio" <japz20@yahoo.com> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wireless access points for FreeBSD 4.3? Message-ID: <20050803024006.36008.qmail@web50302.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <42EF06D6.70506@mac.com>
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--- Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> wrote: > Anyway, if you are stuck using 4.3 for unimaginable > reasons, I suspect the > atheros or PRISM-2/2.5 chipsets are what you are > looking for. Yeah, I'm stuck using 4.3. I'd update if I could, but unfortunately I can't. > Your question doesn't make it entirely clear whether > you are looking for a > wireless card/NIC for a FreebSD machine to talk to a > base station, or whether > you are having an issue sending traffic to or from a > wired FreeBSD machine to > some other Linux box via basestation to wireless...? I'm sorry, I assumed wireless access point = base station. Yes, I'm sending traffic from a wired FreeBSD machine to a wireless Linux box via a base station. > It may be the case that you want to bridge or NAT a > wireless subnet onto your > LAN, but you should consult your basestation's docs > for how to do that; FreeBSD > would use nothing but normal TCP/IP routing to the > basestation. Please correct me if I'm wrong... FreeBSD 4.3 doesn't care what type of base station I use, as long as I can configure the base station to make them see each other? 'Cause that's my real problem, as we only have relatively new base stations in the lab, and I don't know if 4.3 will work with them. If they won't then should I start scrounging about for older base stations? Again, thanks in advance, Jamie ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
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