Linux is similar to fbsd. But will netgear work?

[sphyenx]

I have a netgear pci card, wireless 6. I dotn have the information with me here at work. I want to actually convert to freebsd, but im not sure if it will alow me to get online, a while back I ran slack ware with a linksys wmp11 v4 pci card, but I couldnt get online. So i bought another pci card hearing rumors that it was compatible with *nix. I am having difficulty finding drivers for the netgear pci card. If you could help me I thank you MUCH!, thank you all in advance!. (eNIX)

[techieMoe]

Certain chipsets for certain wireless cards have given me trouble in Linux, usually due to the manufacturer either not writing a driver for it or not allowing the OSS community to make one themselves. There are 2 options that I've found, one is free but hard to get working (in my experience), the other is not free (or at least not free after the 30-day trial). The free option is a program on sourceforge called ndiswrapper. I've tried to get it working with only mediocre success. The other is Linuxant's DriverLoader which I have gotten to work, and quite well.

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/
http://www.linuxant.com

[sphyenx]

I knwo what you mean. I went to the page and it has no listed drivers for freebsd. Or netgear. Heres a list.

DriverLoader (Wireless LAN) downloads

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Format KArch Filename Size MD5 Checksum (md5sum)
RPM x86 driverloader-2.07-1.i386.rpm.zip
(use on RPM-based systems like Mandrake/RedHat/SuSE with custom or unsupported kernels) 352K a1b394ebbff6806bd1d25ab662ec6874
DPKG x86 driverloader_2.07_i386.deb
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TAR x86 driverloader-2.07.tar.gz
(option of last resort compatible with the most systems)



Ok thank you in advance I am willing to pay!