Netgear MA111 wifi card with Project Evil

[Nikolas Britton]

Shahar Yuval wrote:

>Wonderful... is there any alternative? 
>Is it possible to borrow OpenBSD's wi module?
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No, I was only talking about getting it to work on windows, god forbid
you even attempt to try it with BSD  =-O , Maybe I just had a lemon, but
I can tell you that I will never buy any wireless gear from them again.
As far as Wireless USB networking, I won't be trying that again for a
long long time. I'll stick with the tried and true WAP11, WET11*, and
PCMCIA/PCI Wireless networking gear thank you very much.

*Linksys WET11 (Wireless to Ethernet bridge), I would recommend this in
a heart beat, I had one of those in a 3 dollar plastic container all the
way up in a tree (wasn't my idea) for a year before It gave out. I live
in northern Illinois and it gets very cold in the winter and very hot
(humid) in the summer here, when I took it down from the tree the blue
Linksys color was completely faded to gray. I had no major problems with
it, and even after it gave out I managed to savage the PCMCIA Prism 3
card plus antenna assembly (did I tell yea the range on it, 200m
NearLOS) from it and am using it to this day as my AP at home. I give
this product 6 out of 5 stars.

>--- Nikolas Britton <freebsd at nbritton.org> wrote:
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>>Project Evil, Yes, That's what I'd call the netgear
>>MA111. This is the 
>>most flakiest POS I have ever see. Eventually I got
>>so pissed at it that 
>>I calmly unplugged it from the USB port and
>>forcefully wiped it across 
>>the room at a high velocity rate into the wall but
>>it still worked after 
>>this and denied me the satisfaction I was looking
>>for, thus I have 
>>blacklisted netgear. Here is a tip for any company
>>in the networking 
>>bizz, NEVER PISS A SYSADMIN OFF!!!! I wish you all
>>the luck in the 
>>world, and some anger management classes because
>>after this your going 
>>to need it.
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