From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 6 01:12:19 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 922E816A407 for ; Sat, 6 Jan 2007 01:12:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 157A613C428 for ; Sat, 6 Jan 2007 01:12:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from kobe.laptop (host5.bedc.ondsl.gr [62.103.39.229]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id l061BpuE022517 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sat, 6 Jan 2007 03:11:57 +0200 Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l061BjY8059929; Sat, 6 Jan 2007 03:11:45 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l061BjHm059928; Sat, 6 Jan 2007 03:11:45 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 03:11:44 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Tsu-Fan Cheng Message-ID: <20070106011144.GA59693@kobe.laptop> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-3.464, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.73, BAYES_00 -2.60, DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE 0.20) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Spam-Status: No Cc: Radu Adrian Zdrinca , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best "Cheap" Wireless card for FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2007 01:12:19 -0000 On 2007-01-05 18:54, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: > hi, can u tell me the brand name of the card is?? thanks!! FWIW, If it helps at all, I'm using for more than a year now a D-link DWL-AG650 PC-CARD on laptops which I have been working on. It has an Atheros chipset, and the ath(4) driver works like a charm, on 6.X and 7.0-CURRENT. [ pciconf -lv output ] ath0@pci4:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x3a071186 chip=0x0013168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Atheros Communications Inc.' device = 'AR5212, AR5213 802.11a/b/g Wireless Adapter' class = network subclass = ethernet [ dmesg and /var/log/messages output ] ath0: mem 0xffa10000-0xffa1ffff at device 0.0 on cardbus0 ath0: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface ath0: Ethernet address: 00:11:95:ca:e5:e8 ath0: mac 5.9 phy 4.3 radio 3.6 I got it from a Greek online shop for about 35 euros, and it was one of the best online buys I've ever done :)