Re: Wireless Network / WPA / ipw

On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 11:33:49AM -0300, Fernan Aguero wrote:
> +----[ Wouter vanderPloeg <[e-mail]> (04.Feb.2007 19:44):
> |
> | regarding:
> | 
> | http://www.freebsdmall.com/~loader/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/wireless/article.html
> 
> Hi [ me jumping into the discussion ]
> 
> great article! it's a very welcome addition to the doc set.
> 
> I've been hesitating to install FreeBSD on my laptop cause 
> I never found good enough documentation on how to set up 
> the wireless card or if it would work at all ... now I'm
> closer to wanting to try it out!
> 
> One thing that I (a newcomer to the wifi world) would look
> for in the article is if my card is supported. I read that
> "The most commonly used devices are those that use parts
> made by Atheros." And an example about how to set up an
> atheros driver follows. But what about other cards? Only the
> "devices based on the Intersil Prism parts" are mentioned
> other than the Atheros based ones.
> 
> I'm not asking to include one such example for every
> other wireless card/driver. But perhaps a link to another
> web page containing a reference of hardware that is
> supported (and by which driver) or a pointer to a the
> GENERIC kernel config or some other fake kernel config that
> is more documented?
>

Please, read the "official" and supported doc:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html

which states: "A list of available wireless drivers can be found at
the beginning of the wlan(4) manual page. If a native FreeBSD driver for
your wireless device does not exist, it may be possible to directly use
the Windows긠driver with the help of the NDIS driver wrapper."

and which describes what need to be added to loader.conf and/or to the
kernel config file, etc.

> [snipped]
> 
> |
> +----]
> 
> Mmm, so Wouter is talking about an ipw2100 on FreeBSD ... 
> what device driver are you building into your kernel?
> 
> Where can I find more information about support for Intel
> Pro Wireless cards in FreeBSD (for example the IPW 3945
> abg)?
>

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipw&sektion=4&apropos=0&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE

-- 
Marc
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