Re: Dell Wireless 1450 Dual Band WLAN vs Intel PRO/Wireless 2915 WLAN

Pierre-Luc Drouin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Frank Mayhar wrote:

>Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote:
>  
>
>>Which wireless card should I choose for the best support under FreeBSD? 
>>I've seen that a driver exists on -CURRENT for the Intel card and I 
>>would like if this is the case for the Dell card.
>>    
>>
>
>The Dell 1450 is a Broadcom card; there isn't (and won't be) a native
>driver for it.  You can use the ndis driver, but a better choice would
>be an Atheros-chipset-based card like the Senao NL-5354MP Aries2.  I
>have one of those and it works well.  Note that wireless support is a
>lot better under -current, though, than under -stable.
>  
>
Ok, so if I have the choice only between the two I've written, I guess I 
should go with the Intel since there's a FreeBSD driver for it.
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