Re: Hardware reccomendations
Eric Anderson <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile |
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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. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. ------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"