Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 14:33:02 -0700 From: "Steve Franks" <stevefranks@ieee.org> To: "Paul Eskello" <paul.eskello@gmail.com>, "FreeBSD Users Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: recommendations for wireless nics Message-ID: <539c60b90702031333m4618c492ka9eb9397fa836957@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <8cdf6c720702030953j41fa685bnf7717773d9d24309@mail.gmail.com> References: <8cdf6c720702030953j41fa685bnf7717773d9d24309@mail.gmail.com>
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Don't get the motorolas; you can check, but classically, they all have non-open-source (and therefore unsupported) broadcom chipsets. My usual method is to type in the model number of the card and "chipset" into a google search, which ususally works. I'd say the atheros cards are most widely used in freebsd, although anything prism/orinoco has been supported forever too. I tried a ralink with my laptop (non pci obviously), but all laptops these days will lock up the bios if you don't put a manufacturer approved card in, so I didn't get to try it. Intel cards are also supported by iwi and ipw(?) drivers. Just type "man wlan" to get a list of drivers, man for each driver will give you a pretty good idea of what chipsets. Another consideration is that the pci->pcmcia docks are supported in freebsd - I have an atheros card in a proprietary linksys dock for my primary personal server with no hiccups. I don't know under 6.2, but under 6.1 both intel and texas instruments chipsets were supported, but you had to build some propriety/closed source/licenced thingamabob from /usr/ports to get them to work, so they are good after your system is running, but a pain if you are installing and they are your only card. Summary: my best luck has been the atheros. Had some trouble on prism with dhclient not renewing the ip when the link would drop intermittently. Several others reported similar issues. One resolution that I did not try was to use an alternate dhclient package from /usr/ports, don't recall which. Best, Steve On 2/3/07, Paul Eskello <paul.eskello@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > looking for any recommendations regarding wireless lan pci cards and > freebsd, please. > > Thx in advance. > > Cheers, > Paul > _______________________________________________ > 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" > -- Steve Franks, KE7BTE Staff Engineer La Palma Devices, LLC http://www.lapalmadevices.com (520) 312-0089
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