WiFi Nintendo-DS and FreeBSD

[Roland Smith]

On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 01:48:57PM +0100, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
> In november my DS goes WiFi (in Holland).
> Naturaly I want to play games that support this feature.
> (MarioKart-DS i.e.) at home ;-)
> 
> The FreeBSD related question is:
> My main server runs 4.11-stable, some other machines run 5.4
> 
> What do I have to do to give this DS wireless access to the net?
> What is the best approach?
> 
> Only my main server is 24/7 connected (without a hardware router;-)
> Do I put a wireless card in this machine?
> Is this possible or do I have to upgrade FreeBSD to 6.0 to have WiFi?
>
> It's all new to me (this wireless stuff). All my machines are wired.
> So I can use some tips, reading points or suggestions from you.

Verify that a card contains a supported chip before you buy it. some
manufacturers change chipsets without changing the model number.

The handbook has a section on wireless networking:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html

Some stuff about setting up a secure connection:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html

Apparently the standard encryption (WEP) is not very secure and easily
cracked. 

At least you should have the firewall reject any packets whose MAC
address doesn't match your DS and/or laptop. And you should probably
restrict the ports that can be accessed via the wireless link.

Roland
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