From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 14 16:20:49 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ABA216A4CE for ; Tue, 14 Sep 2004 16:20:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from corellia.vindaloo.com (corellia.vindaloo.com [209.87.64.81]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA3E343D62 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 2004 16:20:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@vindaloo.com) Received: from dantooine.vindaloo.com (dantooine.vindaloo.com [192.168.133.3]) by corellia.vindaloo.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C8C51280A; Tue, 14 Sep 2004 12:20:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: by dantooine.vindaloo.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id CAD7125396; Tue, 14 Sep 2004 12:20:47 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 12:20:47 -0400 From: Christopher Sean Hilton To: Eric Anderson Message-ID: <20040914162047.GC13849@dantooine.vindaloo.com> References: <9cf39d6040914085256593790@mail.gmail.com> <41471721.8050705@centtech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41471721.8050705@centtech.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i cc: Ben Nell cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware reccomendations X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 16:20:49 -0000 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "All I was doing was trying to get home from work!" -- Rosa Parks