From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 6 03:15:55 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A89A381 for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2013 03:15:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDBFDFE6 for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2013 03:15:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.6/8.14.6) with ESMTP id r063Fjhj017934; Sat, 5 Jan 2013 20:15:45 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.6/8.14.6/Submit) with ESMTP id r063FiM3017931; Sat, 5 Jan 2013 20:15:45 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 20:15:44 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block To: Frank Mayhar Subject: Re: Reliable wireless card for 9-stable? In-Reply-To: <1357430854.50885.4.camel@jill.exit.com> Message-ID: References: <1357430854.50885.4.camel@jill.exit.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Sat, 05 Jan 2013 20:15:45 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-wireless X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussions of 802.11 stack, tools device driver development." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2013 03:15:55 -0000 On Sat, 5 Jan 2013, Frank Mayhar wrote: > Seeing as the Intel Ultimate-N 6300 that's in my new Dell doesn't work > in 9-stable (see related email here), I'm looking for a card that _does_ > work. Can anyone recommend a decent 11a/g/n card that works well? At > least for 11a and 11g, I realize that 11n is still under heavy > development, thanks, Adrian! It obviously needs to be a mini-pcie card. Careful, there are two sizes of mini-PCIe cards, full- and half-, and between one and three antenna connections. Another important consideration is that Lenovo and HP machines have BIOS whitelists that only allow certain cards to work. > Suggestions greatly appreciated. Links even more appreciated. :-) > Thanks! There's a page on the wiki with Atheros hardware support, but the wiki is down right now.