1. Wireless Network Card Questions

1.1. Will my D-link DWL-650+, 3Com USR2210 (or other Ti chipset 22 Mbps hardware) work in Linux or *BSD?

No. They use a currently unsupported Ti chipset. Please tell D-link that Linux support would be greatly appreciated.

This is a highly subjective question. In my opinion the best all around wireless card is a Lucent/Orinoco Silver or a Gold card. They have good OS support, external antenna jacks, and have one of the highest recive sensitivity on the market. If you are looking to make a HostAp machine, you might want to look into the Zcomax Prism2Card or the [http://www.netgate.com/NL2511.html Senao 200mW cards].

Dunno, maybe. Wireless networking depends on so many different factors that it's impossible to say for sure. Try it and let us know.

Nope. As with other unsupported chipsets, contact the manufacturer, then return the hardware.

You might want to try using HostAp ( http://hostap.epitest.fi/ ), it is a driver that supports ad-hoc, infastructure and master modes, and uses the linux wireless extensions, so you can configure it with iwconfig, unlike wlan-ng.

For lucent/orinoco cards, orinoco_cs, for Prism2/2.5/3 HostAp is strongly suggested, for cisco/aironet cards, airo_cs.

This is different in each operating system, see AssociationWithNetworks and find your operating system's instructions.

The NetworkCommands page lists commands used to configure IP address information once you have your radio associated with the access point.

This is currently covered in NetworkCommands.
- More entries and help would be much appreciated. --ForrestEnglish

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- Many service providers use DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) to assign Network Addresses.  Some may

use PPPoE which will be covered in more detail later.



=== Linux ===

 You'll need dhcpc.  You probably have it.



=== FreeBSD/OpenBSD ===



 Many of the BSD's have dhclient.  To run dhclient manually use:

{{{ dhclient wi0}}} (where '''wi0''' is the name of your network card)



FreeBSD users can have dhclient run automagically at bootup by adding the line

{{{

ifconfig_wi0="dhcp"

}}} to /etc/rc.conf



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+ This is currently covered in BcWireless:NetworkCommands.