Re: wireless card recommendation for laptop
Brad Schonhorst <[email protected]>
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On Sep 21, 2005, at 9:15 AM, Marcin Jessa wrote: > On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 08:58:11 +0200 > "anon anon" <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Im currently looking to purchase a wireless card, preferably mini- >> pci for my >> thinkpad R40. Are there any well supported mpi/pcmcia cards for >> fbsd. >> Please don_t mention the cisco mpi350 as this card has not worked >> for me >> since 4.10. This card only works for about 5 minutes or until it >> is placed >> under reasonable load. It then timeouts and cannot be brought up >> unless the >> system is power cycled. And yes, I have downgraded the firmware >> to 5.00.1 >> or whatever it is numerous times. I need a card that is known to >> work >> without problems under 5.x. >> >> Cheers >> > > Use an Atheros based card. Just be prepared to run FreeBSD 6. In my experience, Atheros support in 5.x is not good. Much work has been put into the ath driver since then. -brad ------------------------------------- Brad Schonhorst Network Administrator Village Community School _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"