Re: Yes i need to Ask A question
Christian Walther wrote: ... On a side note: Having a FreeBSD based Laptop with you in a store where people know only about Windows is an experience one should have. They need their time to get used to the idea that there are other Operating Systems as Windows. And that these don't need graphics to work. And that there are people out there that can work with a computer without graphics... ;-D ... here in the UK you'd be lucky to be allowed to try even one card in your own machine. Only reason I bought an Acer is that someone else had already managed to get most of the kinks ironed out (and had written about it). Unfortunately improvements in FreeBSD have taken me backwards in terms of understanding over the last year. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Yes i need to Ask A question
On 13/06/07, Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was wondering this this wireless networking card will work with FreeBsd - U.S. Robotics Wireless MAXg PC Card Ethernet Card, 802.11g, b. I needed to know because I am going to buy it next week. Thank You, please write back. IMO having a specific card supported is kind of a problem, because manufacturers tend to change chip revisions pretty fast, and there are some subtle difference between these revisions that can render the card useless - even if the driver supports the chipset. So make sure you find out what the card is actually based on (atheros, ral, etc.) and look up the manpage for the driver. Find the card and check the revision. If your revision is newer than the latest mentioned one, make sure that you can return the card. Or: Take your laptop with you. I did it when I purchased my D-Link DWL-650 from a big discounter. I loaded all available WLAN drivers into memory (gave a nice for-loop and the laptop lots to do). Afterwards the salespersons handed me one board after the other and I checked the console/syslog wether the board was recognised as a WLAN device. It was great: I figured I could go with a ral-based card, but it turned out to be unstable. Next try (yes, I went there again and we did the procedure all over again) I found the card mentioned above. And I'm really happy with it. It's stable, and the connection quality is really good. On a side note: Having a FreeBSD based Laptop with you in a store where people know only about Windows is an experience one should have. They need their time to get used to the idea that there are other Operating Systems as Windows. And that these don't need graphics to work. And that there are people out there that can work with a computer without graphics... ;-D HTH Christian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Yes i need to Ask A question
On 6/12/07, Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was wondering this this wireless networking card will work with FreeBsd - U.S. Robotics Wireless MAXg PC Card Ethernet Card, 802.11g, b. I needed to know because I am going to buy it next week. Thank You, please write back. -- Adam W. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Sorta unrelated, but I've had a good experience with anything based off the Atheros chipset..netgear tends to use that chipset. Read the man page for 'ath'. I'm not sure about the card you're looking to buy, you could always resort to ndis if you had to. I'd use Google to help you buy your card, and there's a list around somewhere of wireless cards that work with FreeBSD... -- Jim Capozzoli D6499626857801B6065013E3645A6B75 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Yes i need to Ask A question
I was wondering this this wireless networking card will work with FreeBsd - U.S. Robotics Wireless MAXg PC Card Ethernet Card, 802.11g, b. I needed to know because I am going to buy it next week. Thank You, please write back. -- Adam W. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
