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On Mon, 7 Oct 2013, sbremal@hotmail.com wrote:

> I found it cumbersome to map Atheros chipsets to PCIe cards, most of 
> the time this info is hidden from the adapters data sheet. I must be 
> completely on the wrong way. I would expect 10 min. to pick a PCIe 
> WLAN card from the Freebsd HW notes, order it, plug it in, configure 
> and enjoy. Like with LAN cards, hard disks etc. What do I do wrong?

A search at wikidevi.com for "atheros pcie" finds a few PCIe cards, and 
a bunch of mini-PCIe cards.  There might be a better search term to show 
just desktop-type PCIe.

There are adapter cards to put a mini-PCIe card in a PCIe slot, which 
provides more versatility.