From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 15 18:38:20 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F16D16A49E for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:38:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lars.stokholm@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.169]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B42F913C4B9 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:38:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lars.stokholm@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id o2so1298076uge for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:38:17 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=WjuN1jJN+DUjL4upa+hHT+mKsJXKH1A9UtUyqux47PIiA6t6EJP7IYdATLmlI4fQ60cmme6RJzhfTWe8rkViZaAV2ysX9yjHryxvdts4kS6au5rnIuO7EQOmWHaXrVtfdUmZEy5KUUAbUcSGjV7AK+VLL6ZuROu3BK78E7Du3B0= Received: by 10.67.103.7 with SMTP id f7mr5857138ugm.1168886297648; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:38:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?10.0.0.12? ( [85.83.123.144]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id o30sm7234360ugd.2007.01.15.10.38.16; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:38:16 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <45ABCA16.8040000@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 19:38:14 +0100 From: Lars Stokholm User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070103) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org References: <45ABBFDF.4080708@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <45ABBFDF.4080708@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Wireless NIC recommendation X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:38:20 -0000 Lars Stokholm wrote: > Hi, I hope someone can help me with this, before I go mad (no pun > intended.) :) > > I was initially looking for a relatively cheap 54Mbps, 802.11g- and > WPA-capable network card, based on an Atheros chipset, but after > spending the whole of last night looking for one - to no avail - I > gave up. > > I'm almost about to conclude that Atheros is not the way to go. So now > I want to know, if anyone can recommend ANY card, being cheap and > supporting the features mentioned above. I don't mind using NDIS, as > long as it works flawlessly. Also it would be good, if the card was a > popular one, so community support is more available. > > Thanks. Oops, forgot to add that it must be PCI.