FreeBSD as WLAN Access Point

Stacey Roberts stacey at vickiandstacey.com
Mon Apr 28 01:25:58 BST 2003


Hello,

On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 01:22, Tom Hukins wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 11:45:33PM +0100, Stacey Roberts wrote:
> > Has anyone in the UK been able to locate WLAN PCI nics that can be
> > used under FreeBSD 4.x running as a WLAN Access Point?
> 
> I used a Prism PCMCIA card with a PCI adapter.  You can get hold of a
> Prism-based card easily off eBay or through most dealers.  See wi(4)
> for a list of cards that FreeBSD supports.  I found the adapter harder
> to find:  I ended up with a Wisecom card that I bought from Scan
> <http://www.scan.co.uk/>.

Thanks for the reply. I *was* hoping to get a "real" PCI solution, but
these appear quite rare, and not easily available here in the the UK :-(

I'll have a look at the list and see what's available from E-Bay and the
lot..,

Thanks again.

Regards,

Stacey

> 
> Tom
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Stacey Roberts
B.Sc (HONS) Computer Science

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