Re: Hardware reccomendations

Eric Anderson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Christopher Sean Hilton wrote:
> 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.

Native ath/ath_hal driver.

Eric



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