From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 15 13:49:27 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: 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 EC94616A503 for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:49:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nathan@vidican.com) Received: from wmptl.net (mail.wmptl.com [216.8.159.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DAD843D46 for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:47:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nathan@vidican.com) Received: from [10.0.0.104] (r3140ca.wmptl.net [10.0.0.104]) by wmptl.net (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id kBFDn7pT004994 for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 08:49:08 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from nathan@vidican.com) Message-ID: <4582A7D6.6010203@vidican.com> Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 08:49:10 -0500 From: Nathan Vidican User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20061027) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.54 on 10.0.0.80 Cc: Subject: Best supported mini-PCI wifi 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: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:49:28 -0000 My laptop has the wonderfully under-supported Broadcom wifi card in it. While it does work now with ndiswrapper and a few needed patches; it still doesn't work very well, to say nothing of natively. So, what does work? I've checked out the hardware notes for 6.1-R, but to no avail really... I'm looking at an Intel 2915 wireless a/b/g mini-PCI card, as Intel has always been great with supporting FreeBSD and therefore I'd much rather send my business to them... but I know very little about this card and don't know which (if any) driver supports it? Does anyone out there have this card, or another mini-PCI, (preferably not based on a broadcom chip ), that they could recommend? If driver's are in the making for the Intel mini-PCI card, I'd be happy to help test as well. Currently running 6.2-RC1/amd64 with some patchwork done to the ndiswrapper kernel module to make it work with newer Broadcom windows drivers. -- Nathan Vidican nvidican@wmptl.com