RE: testing laptop based on bsd anyone

["Strand, John (Mission Systems)" <John.Strand () ngc com>]

The IBM T40 - T43 series of laptops work very well with FreeBSD.

Mine is kind of old so I don't know if the Lenovo/IBM ThinkPad's work as
well, but I don't think they have changed much.

HTH

John 

-----Original Message-----
From: Ivan . [mailto:ivanhec () gmail com] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 1:28 AM
To: Robin Wood
Cc: pen-test () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: testing laptop based on bsd anyone

Hi Robin,

I'm not sure what tools and drivers you are have issues with, these
lists should help

PCMCIA wireless adapters known to work
http://www.remote-exploit.org/index.php/Auditor_dev_list1

chipsets
http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html.gz

drivers
http://www.seattlewireless.net/LinuxDrivers

cheers
Ivan

On 3/8/06, Robin Wood <dninja () gmail com> wrote:
> Hi
> I'm having problems with wireless pen-tests due to the linux drivers 
> for my wireless card and someone suggested trying one of the BSDs.
> Does anyone here use BSD as a base system for pen-testing from? I was 
> going to go with FreeBSD as I have a little knowledge of it already.
> Any tips, tricks or gotchas?
>
> Thanks
>
> Robin
>
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