From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 15 16:37:51 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 84CC216A5B3 for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:37:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from e.schuele@computer.org) Received: from alnrmhc14.comcast.net (alnrmhc14.comcast.net [206.18.177.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C16E43E0E for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:34:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from e.schuele@computer.org) Received: from [208.206.151.59] (host59.gtisd.com?[208.206.151.59]) by comcast.net (alnrmhc14) with ESMTP id <20061215163507b1400lh58ve>; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:35:28 +0000 Message-ID: <4582CEBA.5020806@computer.org> Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:35:06 -0600 From: Eric Schuele User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061111) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nathan Vidican References: <4582A7D6.6010203@vidican.com> In-Reply-To: <4582A7D6.6010203@vidican.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 16:37:51 -0000 On 12/15/2006 07:49, Nathan Vidican wrote: > 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 don't know if its "the best supported" or not. But I'm using an atheros based card. And it works quite well. > 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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" > -- Regards, Eric