Do you know if the Netgear card has an external antenna connector? We are pushing the range abit connecting our houses and we need antennas to reach. If it does, do you know what type of connector it is, and where to get pigtails? For what it's worth, I have given up on OpenBSD too. I got it working, well kinda. It would work /sometimes/ and then everyonce and a while I would get the "wi0: watchdog timeout" error again. After I get that there is nothing I can do to get it to work. Half the time I boot I would get it right away. I was thinking it might have some sleeping or power management that was turning it off. I turned off the power saver thing with wicontrol but that didn't seam to help. So I have broken down and I'm going to try linux and win2k server. All it needs to be is a simple router and firewall so just about anything can do it. It seams like they officaly support linux so maybe it will work better. I'm going to try slack today and see what hapens. Thanks for all the help everyone. --------------<<<((((((0))))))>>>-------------- Leo Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Nick Sayer wrote: > For what it's worth, you may wish to consider buying a Netgear > MA401/MA301 combination instead. The MA301 PCI adapter is not actually a > pcic, so it doesn't rely on or interact with Warner's recent changes. > This gives it an ever-so-slightly higher chance of being a trouble-free > installation (though to be fair I never had any trouble during the > recent period of relative upheaval). > > The downsides are that you need a recent RELENG_4 tree for this device > to work and it is not hot-pluggable like pcics are and the driver does > not support inserting any card other than a Prism2 802.11b card. > > I believe this combination may be had cheaper than Orinoccos as well. > And it has "Gold" equivalent WEP (though even that should be regarded as > plaintext nowadays). The only downside is that the Windows driver for > the Netgear stuff is not plumbed to handle roaming (that is, multiple > profiles with different SSID and WEP settings) as nicely as the Orinocco > stuff is (of course this is entirely irrelevant under FreeBSD). >
