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Hi all,

I'm a recent transfer from the GNU/Linux world, and I wanted to try out FreeBSD and all the good things I've heard about it. The only problem is my wifi card is not compatible and thus I can't use the internet...
Is there anything I can do with this OS to learn more about UNIX without the internet? Any little projects you guys know of?

Thank you!
 
There are some cheap USB WiFi cards on the market that are supported by FreeBSD. I don't have any list to show you, but I bought one with Ralink chipset on it, that was claimed by the company to be compatible with Linux, and was compatible with FreeBSD as well (it costed about 10-15 euros).

Other than that, you can read the FreeBSD's handbook, but I am not sure that this is what you want, because it's not clear to me what you mean by saying: "Is there anything I can do with this OS to learn more about UNIX...". If you need to learn more about Unix, there are a few books out there that explain Unix guts. Moreover, it is not totally wrong to use Linux in order to learn Unix as well :).
 
The netbook I installed FreeBSD 8.X-RELEASE on (can't remember the exact release) wouldn't recognize the wifi card, so I tried using ndis, which worked. ndis is a way that lets you use Windows drivers, which you will easily find.
 
Thanks guys! I have the BCM4312 broadcom card on my netbook and it seems like bwi(4) would be sufficient to get me connected. I'll see how that goes.

Thanks again!
 
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