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Old 22nd August 2008
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That is royal pain
// Michael Lucas (c) "Absolute FreeBSD"...

I have had this problem on almost all laptops in my possession. Currently I am using ubuntu on my work laptop and on all of my servers. I have stopped to struggle to set up all of these things on a laptop because it takes SO MUCH of time and grief!
By the way, I found the macbooks the only BSD-like laptops (most of my favorite shell commands and settings works out of the box!)

This was the lyrics. Yes, you need to change the wireless card if you want to get it working. I have found on the net that Intel 2xxx cards are well supported opposed to 3945abg. I did find the drivers for 3945abg, but it didn't work for me.
For completeness, my only experience with ndis didn't succeed. Although, it was one year ago playing with FreeBSD 6.2...

Atheros? yes!!! I had good experience working with one such card. It claimed to be made by Cisco, but FreeBSD told me that it is in fact an Atheros chip! It is worth to find such cards...
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