Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2013 19:41:57 -0800 From: Frank Mayhar <frank@exit.com> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: freebsd-wireless <freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Reliable wireless card for 9-stable? Message-ID: <1357443717.50885.10.camel@jill.exit.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1301052011380.17644@wonkity.com> References: <1357430854.50885.4.camel@jill.exit.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1301052011380.17644@wonkity.com>
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On Sat, 2013-01-05 at 20:15 -0700, Warren Block wrote: > 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=20 > between one and three antenna connections. Yeah, I'm planning on picking up a half-size card. I don't know how many antenna connections the current card has bit it's at least two and quite likely three. =46rom reading lists and comments here and there it looks like and Atheros-based card is the way to go but I was hoping for a concrete recommendation. I'm currently using an AR5413-based card in another laptop but it suffers from regular device timeouts and poor performance. > Another important consideration is that Lenovo and HP machines have BIOS= =20 > whitelists that only allow certain cards to work. Not an issue for me, this is a Dell Latitude E6530. > > Suggestions greatly appreciated. Links even more appreciated. :-) > > Thanks! > There's a page on the wiki with Atheros hardware support, but the wiki= =20 > is down right now. Yeah, I tried that. Thanks. --=20 Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com
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