Re: Hardware reccomendations
Eric Anderson <[email protected]>
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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 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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]"