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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=
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> 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=
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> is down right now.

Yeah, I tried that.  Thanks.
--=20
Frank Mayhar
frank@exit.com



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