Re: wirelss card & cardbus
"Kevin Oberman" <[email protected]>
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> Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 12:00:00 -0800 > From: Ross Lippert <[email protected]> > Sender: [email protected] > > I just bought a new wireless card for my laptop, which was cardbus, > and it seems that that means it is unsupported (but it is not like I > could tell from the distributor's site that it was cardbus or not). > > So, as I package this guy up for a return, I ask, does anyone have a > recommendation for a card with at least 128-bit WEP and support for > at least 802.11b if not g, for FBSD 4.X? You can always run 5.2, just released a few minutes ago. It supports CardBus and many 'g' cards. For non-SMP systems, it's really pretty solid. There are many 16-bit 802.11b cards that will work fine with V4, but it's often hard to get the right one as manufacturers seem to change the chip used without changing the model number and often not even showing a revision number. Any card with a Intersil Prism chip should work. I've been running V5 on my laptop for some time and I'm not too sure of the state of 'G' support in STABLE. If the ath driver is in STABLE, Atheros chips should work. Most 'B' Cisco cards are also supported. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [email protected] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"