Re: Wireless card recommendation

I need to be more specific: What card would everyone recommond that works in
FreeBSD, any version.  I'll take *any* card now, so long as it *just works*
in FreeBSD.

You must be using an OS other than FreeBSD.  I just installed FreeBSD
4.6.2-RELEASE, and when I put a Netgear FA410 into the slot I get an error
that says:
pccardd[230]: No card in database for "NETGEAR MA401RA Wireless PC"("Card")

I also have a Linksys WPC11 v3 card (the box says it's Prism3), and it's
been the lesser of all evils, though it still doesn't work completely.
dstumbler will run fine for 10-15 minutes, but then the program locks up
when some error messages start appearing on the screen.  Ctrl + C won't do
anything, I can't switch to another virtual terminal, etc.  It seems to be
only dstumbler that does it, because I've left the computer sit with the
Linksys for an hour with no error messages coming up.  Very frustrating.
The errors are below.  I'm not finding much on Google, or this list.  Anyone
have any ideas?

wi0: wi_cmd: busy bit won't clear
wi0: timeout in wi_seek to 0/0; last status 4000
wi0: xmit failed
wi0: watchdog timeout


----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl Schmidt" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 2:32 PM
Subject: Re: [BAT] Wireless card recommendation


> On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 12:47:07PM -0400, A. Wright wrote:
> [...]
> > Most importantly I want a card that is supported by the BSD-Airtools.
I'd
> > also like a card that is known to work fairly well with APs of other
brands.
> > 128-bit WEP is also important.  Price is a factor, but not as much as
the
> > factors previously mentioned.  So given this, what would everyone
recommend?
> > Is there someplace on the web I can look that might have good comparison
> > information?
>
> I've been using a Netgear MA401 for a while now and have had no problems
> yet.  As for being able to use it with other APs I have had success with
> it on Linksys and D-Link APs.  I think I paid about USD70 for my card.
> --
> Carl Schmidt
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