From: Strand, John (Mission Systems) (John.Strand@ngc.com)
Date: Wed Mar 08 2006 - 08:40:35 EST
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
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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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