Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 11:06:57 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Ben Nell <enemy.cow@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware reccomendations Message-ID: <41471721.8050705@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <9cf39d6040914085256593790@mail.gmail.com> References: <9cf39d6040914085256593790@mail.gmail.com>
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Ben Nell wrote: > Hi All: > > I am running FreeBSD 5.2 on a Dell Inspiron 8600, and I am interested > in swapping out the mini-pci wireless NIC. It's a Centrino machine, > and I believe that the 802.11b card that is currently present is a > Broadcom. Regardless, it doesn't appear to be supported. I've used > the NDIS wrapper driver found in current release, but I'm not happy > with it's performance and would prefer to just replace the card with a > well-supported 802.11g card. > > What I'm looking for is a reccomendation of chipset/brand/model from > anyone. I'm fairly new to wireless networking and would appreciate > any insight or personal opinions anyone would care to share. I bought a 'Netegriti' card (EM-500AG I think), and it works flawlessly. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. ------------------------------------------------------------------
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