Setting up FreeBSD wireless for sales person

[Michael Vince]

For FreeBSD 6 check out this wireless documentation
http://www.freebsdmall.com/~loader/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/wireless/article.html
as well as the offical handbook one, 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html
That wireless device does appear to be atheros based so you wont need to 
use the ndis driver with project evil but can use a native FreeBSD driver.

I would recommend using dhcp setup with the wireless device, if you need 
something more easy then that then you will probably have to roll your own.

Mike


James Earl wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I'm setting up a sales person's notebook with a wireless card.  This
>sales person travels around and usually stays in hotels.  He needs to
>be able to connect to the hotel's internet connection whether it be a
>wired or wireless connection.  I previously had him running OpenBSD
>with a Sierra AirCard (would've been FreeBSD but I couldn't get it
>working :).
>
>I picked up a D-Link DWL-AG660.  I currently have FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE
>on the notebook.  I see the DWL-AG660 isn't detected by 6-RELEASE,
>hopefully just because it needs to have the device ids added?
>
>I don't have much experience with running a wireless setup with
>FreeBSD so I thought I'd seek your thoughts on whether I should turn
>this guy loose with FreeBSD and wireless, or if I should just put
>win98 on it for him.  I imagine there may be cases where he'd have to
>change ssid's depending on the hotel network he's connecting to...
>which may complicate things... although I see there's some GNOME
>wireless applets which may work with FreeBSD?
>
>I guess the key question is whether it's possible to set this up to be
>user friendly enough for a non-technical person... the less
>interaction, the better?
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