From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 5 05:58:28 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 1532D16A402 for ; Sat, 5 May 2007 05:58:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wizlayer@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.238]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5FCF13C45A for ; Sat, 5 May 2007 05:58:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wizlayer@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s18so950956wxc for ; Fri, 04 May 2007 22:58:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:x-copyright-notice:x-copyright-info:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=gb/PueYiVFx1Jj1q8j9EkP8rXJBeSYjWjUeQuRHjtVL9oxYDlQyx3Upp6FsXBVg6o05UTS8TnkS1gsqzuutocBtFH1qpBG7mLcQtShiEfihKcq58k6xbF3ulsdxBAv8gzBgz1gu1DqO1LF7EtB5OoXWKOzsIs/soMsZoAQCWcoM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:x-copyright-notice:x-copyright-info:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=YV1Ma4eg5dy2pY0spD0txagVI+p44OMSglQQbFxlho4DEdQOrkU3JCoBY0SgqZ/T6Ur2P4WrGPUc1HUrZZhWyyvogG7ljdX2TxWP54JqxhXqozSiVZ+1UaLu8LKvvZRL5DbnHaDQpwWTkEvLav8hFFKpKLysPZH/8YeL2pPw7PQ= Received: by 10.90.27.13 with SMTP id a13mr3959850aga.1178344706210; Fri, 04 May 2007 22:58:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?10.2.252.239? ( [65.208.79.2]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 7sm4200393agd.2007.05.04.22.58.25; Fri, 04 May 2007 22:58:25 -0700 (PDT) From: WizLayer To: "FreeBSD, Questions" Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 01:58:11 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 X-Copyright-Notice: 2007 Michael C. Hauber X-Copyright-Info: This transmission is copyrighted and may not be stored, printed, forwarded, or distributed by any means without the author's written consent. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200705050158.11812.wizlayer@gmail.com> Subject: 802.11a/b/g/n listed at atheros X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: wizlayer@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 05:58:28 -0000 Just a question Browsing though messages, doing some googling, I came across the mis-linked page from the ath driver man page. So there's the list of cards... Next question (and yes I've read the handbook)... The handbook states that it supports 802.11a/b/g. Well, in that list of cards at atheros.com, I found several cards listed as 802.11n (backwards compabible, of course). My question is this. How safe would it be to assume that the ath driver would use this (n standard) card as an 802.11g? Furthermore, would the native 802.11 layer be the only thing holding the card back? IOW, when the layer is updated to 802.11n, would the card then be fully functional? This has been somewhat of a learning curve, so forgive me if the questions seems foolish. Two weeks ago, I knew nothing about how wireless worked (I've only had to set them up on windows boxes before. What can I say? :) ). So should I wait to buy the card or should I find something limited to the g spec? Thanks, WizLayer -------> Life is better with a BSD. For more info, www.bsd.org.