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From: Gour <gour@atmarama.net>
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Felix Friedlander <felixphew0@gmail.com> writes:

> If you are wanting to purchase an adapter, any of those 3 would be fine.

So, there is no significant difference in quality between the rsu and urtwn
drivers?

> However, have you considered using your builtin NIC with ndis(4)?

Well, I wanted to avoid extra hassle. :-)

> [See section 12.5.1.1 of the FreeBSD Handbook][1] for instructions, or
> reply to this email if you need help.

Thank you. I'll try, but I wonder how often I'd have to do it? Every major
upgrade of my OS?

The performance should be equal or on par with reverse-engineered drivers
like rsu/urtwn?


Sincerely,
Gour

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