Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:38:38 -0400 From: Tim Kellers <timothyk@wallnet.com> To: Boris Kochergin <spawk@acm.poly.edu> Cc: ipfreak@yahoo.com, James Harrison <jamesh@lanl.gov>, freebsd general questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: desktop wireless card Message-ID: <48A5F75E.7020006@wallnet.com> In-Reply-To: <48A5EF17.8000705@acm.poly.edu> References: <407385.56133.qm@web52109.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <48A5BE8E.4070808@lanl.gov> <48A5EF17.8000705@acm.poly.edu>
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I have had Lynksys cards that were not recognized, but in those cases I was able to use ndisgen (after I dug up the Windows drivers) to create a wrapper and enable those cards in both FreeBSD 6.3 and 7 -CURRENT (way back when 7 was current). I haven't had to do it since 7.0-RELEASE but I'd expect it to work as well. Tim Kellers CPE/NJIT Boris Kochergin wrote: > James Harrison wrote: >> gahn wrote: >>> Hello: >>> >>> Could anyone recommend a desktop wireless card for freebsd 6.2? Just >>> moved in new place and only wireless in the house. >>> >>> Thanks in advance >>> >>> >>> >> I use whatever was the cheapest linksys wireless G card I could find; >> plugs in to PCI slot and works wonderfully. >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I'm not certain that everything Linksys puts out has FreeBSD-supported > hardware inside. I have a bunch of TRENDnet TEW-443PI and Netgear > WG311T cards that work well. They use the ath(4) driver. > > As a general statement, I'm pretty sure that anything with an Atheros > chip inside (a fact often advertised on boxes of the products) that > doesn't support any incarnation of 802.11n will work with said driver. > http://atheros.rapla.net/ has more details. > > -Boris > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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