USB WiFi

[ANdrei]

need to buy a WiFi-adapter on USB... choices available so far are from Sweex, Edimax and Hercules. Compatibility with FreeBSD is important.

The Sweex is model LC100060, seems to have a Ralink RT2500 chip. On the Edimax there is no model on the box, it's a 54Mbps model and on the box they state they have support for Windows and Linux (mandrake, debian, suse etc, nothing written about FreeBSD). Hercules I can order, model unknown, 54Mbps. Prices are about the same, with the Edimax ~5euro cheaper, but that's not important.

Anybody has any experiences with any of the adapters from this company?  Driver support under FreeBSD, and known issues? would love to have WPA-PSK support on FreeBSD, or at least WEP 128bit working. Also hot-plugging a problem?


any help is greatly appreciated, and time presses me a bit. Have got quite some adapters for Wifi at home already (PCI, PCMCIA, CF etc) and had issues with some of them on FreeBSD. This is the first one on USB, want to get a safe buy :)

Oh, my first thought was to go for Edimax, the cheapest, because I don't need best quality, distance is only 3meters to the AP and no heavy traffic... if it's working on FreeBSD...


thanks alot,
ANdrei
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