Wireless PCI card support (pcmcia to a lesser degree)
twig les
twigles at yahoo.com
Thu Oct 16 20:38:54 PDT 2003
OK, I'm a noob at wireless so I poked around Google and the
lists and got a nice netgear 401 pcmcia card and accompanying
AP; they work great. But having only one laptop I need a
wireless PCI card to tinker with things like Kismet/BSD air
tools and setting up my laptop as an AP with IPSec...ya know,
all the fun stuff (I do NOT break into systems). To this end I
have spent multiple hours online googling to find a PCI card
that I know will work. I have also bought and returned a DLINK
520 (not the +) after reading that it worked, then trying it and
finding out they pulled the old chipset switch-a-roo. I now
have a nice new SMC 2602W, and from googling the lists I see
that SMC changed it's chipset also.
There is a point to this inane babbling...I was wondering if
there is a central web page I'm missing that has somewhat
current status on the state of wireless card support.
Specifically:
Which cards use which chipsets and how to find out before we buy
them?
Which companies actually increment/change their product numbers
when they switch chipsets?
What is the status of non-wi drivers in FreeBSD? Like the adm
driver I think I now need for this $60 paperweight I bought.
Maybe even the contact info for companies so we can send our
gripes to them instead of to each other :). I'll start:
http://www.smc.com/index.cfm?action=techsupport_contact
They even have Linux in the dropdown menu in their little form
(*BSD is expecting too much) which in this case probably covers
us driver-support wise.
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