Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 12:20:47 -0400 From: Christopher Sean Hilton <chris@vindaloo.com> To: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware reccomendations Message-ID: <20040914162047.GC13849@dantooine.vindaloo.com> In-Reply-To: <41471721.8050705@centtech.com> References: <9cf39d6040914085256593790@mail.gmail.com> <41471721.8050705@centtech.com>
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On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 11:06:57AM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote:
> 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.
>
Is this supported by NDIS/Project Evil or a native driver? I for one
would prefer a native driver.
--
Chris Hilton chilton-at-vindaloo-dot-com
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