From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 7 00:38:56 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7BCE1065679; Tue, 7 Aug 2012 00:38:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gallego.alexx@gmail.com) Received: from mail-lpp01m010-f54.google.com (mail-lpp01m010-f54.google.com [209.85.215.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22B8E8FC1D; Tue, 7 Aug 2012 00:38:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by laai10 with SMTP id i10so2244935laa.13 for ; Mon, 06 Aug 2012 17:38:54 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=4PoqTgNv4ax7uO55duBoHRurkA0pEaor2jsAsSXfrXQ=; b=eoKScZtvctsAZ7ByWBxBTeyPbX8xJ7Ghmu83Z6Y3mWkLyeaEnAuBOmcGZcyjCi+wHZ USZWBBUjlgzbq6iV049ZFtLqLNpXxljz9LUG0Bh9ynXur0fmC5ujDYBkfuL0vd4vVCLT K8Yl/jqWGZu3KCFYLMMC09+MzarsxbL1IEgISZzMKv0o3mRYrMfHy4RGRcuqh0jmbLCZ RGxYPK7ZjlEtccMtMc6ynbPyLR1xRncgsvfVUths6oMgJYqsaagagnzx62yQ4acp9I1Z oAW8DPL3LfGl7bux3QOHDLQtN56H0T+qxSvdy26qydW1oQKgiVtuYg+ksDHD30SUbiU1 SHsg== Received: by 10.152.125.133 with SMTP id mq5mr12460125lab.12.1344299934658; Mon, 06 Aug 2012 17:38:54 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.112.43.200 with HTTP; Mon, 6 Aug 2012 17:38:34 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: Alexander Gallego Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 20:38:34 -0400 Message-ID: To: Adrian Chadd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wireless Card N PCI or USB for freebsd 9.0 amd64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 00:38:56 -0000 Adrian, Thanks for your prompt reply. When you say > Bernhard has done a > fantastic job backporting the 802.11n fixes for that. Does that mean that it is currently working on freebsd 9.0. If it's not on 9.0 I might have a tough time patching the kernel. Sorry if I missed the obvious. Sincerely, Alex ---*--- ------* * * * On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > Your best bet is the intel iwn series NICs. Bernhard has done a > fantastic job backporting the 802.11n fixes for that. > > USB - I think if_run will eventually grow 802.11n support in -9? > > > > Adrian > > > On 6 August 2012 17:27, Alexander Gallego wrote: >> Hello, >> >> A fellow at forums.freebsd.org suggested I posted this thread here. >> (http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=33782) >> >> >> ============================================== >> >> For your convenience here is the original question: >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.0R/hardware.html#WLAN >> >> Covers all wireless drives supported by FreeBSD 9.0 >> >> I researched about 10 drivers or more, but all were either G/B but >> none listed there were N wireless drivers. >> >> I can't seem to find the post (it might be old mailing list) where it >> said that FreeBSD had basically no N wireless support. I am not sure >> if this is still the case. If I find the link I'll edit post. >> >> I want to **buy** a wireless card (PCI or USB) for my desktop and want >> to get suggestions from the community from a card that you've had >> success with: >> >> 1. Installing it and running smoothly on FreeBSD 9.0 >> 2. Supports wireless N >> >> >> Thank you. >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wireless >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-wireless-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"