Re: Wifi frustration (SUCCESS)

2005-05-23 Thread Alexander Bochmann
Hi, ...on Sun, May 22, 2005 at 03:16:51PM -0400, Steve Shockley wrote: No, it's hard to find new Prism-based cards anymore except for a few USB ones, and last I looked wi on usb didn't work as an access point. At least according to the manpage, it still doesn't work is supposed to be

Re: Wifi frustration (SUCCESS)

2005-05-22 Thread Steve Shockley
Chris Zakelj wrote: Steve, I was looking for the one card you mentioned (MA311) as I had used it in a previous application, but neither card was in any of my local stores. No, it's hard to find new Prism-based cards anymore except for a few USB ones, and last I looked wi on usb didn't work

Re: Wifi frustration

2005-05-21 Thread Steve Shockley
Chris Zakelj wrote: So I suppose the best question to ask is, has anyone encountered a 2.1 friendly card, or am I up a creek? I believe my Compaq Deskpro 5233MMX is PCI 2.1, and it's worked with two different wi cards; a Netgear MA311 and a Sohoware NCP130. I did purchase a cheap ral card

Re: Wifi frustration (SUCCESS)

2005-05-21 Thread Chris Zakelj
Chris Zakelj wrote: I should probably add that I did check the archives, where the solutions tended to point towards Just buy an access point, they're just as cheap. I would (they're around), but that defeats the intent of learning how to do it, trying to reduce underdesk wire clutter, and

Wifi frustration

2005-05-20 Thread Chris Zakelj
With 3.7 released, I figured this would be a great time to add wifi ability to my firewall. Being a good boy, I checked the HCL at http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html to see which cards I should look for at my local retailers. Several were in stock, so I grabbed one and installed, only to find that

Re: Wifi frustration

2005-05-20 Thread Chris Zakelj
I should probably add that I did check the archives, where the solutions tended to point towards Just buy an access point, they're just as cheap. I would (they're around), but that defeats the intent of learning how to do it, trying to reduce underdesk wire clutter, and rewarding