From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 3 02:40:07 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5328616A41F for ; Wed, 3 Aug 2005 02:40:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from japz20@yahoo.com) Received: from web50302.mail.yahoo.com (web50302.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.38.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D7BD443D46 for ; Wed, 3 Aug 2005 02:40:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from japz20@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 36011 invoked by uid 60001); 3 Aug 2005 02:40:06 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=it3ry3hW4kdlZaXtMFqFNJUjL5LFXmzDhlDefZZjfW+ldRIRcHL3Fg9vEXlgkZ6WamVkp1tqv7dZI98kucuGetmrxQUIDVIbJiF1umyKwYM1NK2UWlZjOVFDiBQLYr3nFBZDja4HXkpU/WEHVEL3+98Ia42TfQG8YAbCI4+HH5o= ; Message-ID: <20050803024006.36008.qmail@web50302.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [203.167.110.35] by web50302.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 02 Aug 2005 19:40:06 PDT Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 19:40:06 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jamie Ann P. Zamodio" To: Chuck Swiger In-Reply-To: <42EF06D6.70506@mac.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wireless access points for FreeBSD 4.3? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 02:40:07 -0000 --- Chuck Swiger 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