Re: Hardware reccomendations
Ben Nell <[email protected]>
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On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 10:56:31 -0600, Kenneth D. Merry <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 11:06:57 -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. > > I've got one of those as well, and it seems to work well. > > I've got an Inspiron 8500. It fit in the minipci slot, but was shorter > than the original Broadcom b/g minipci card. I think the antenna connectors > on it were also swapped, when compared to the Broadcom card. There was just > enough slack in the antenna wires to connect it up. > > It works fine in A, B, and G modes with the ath driver. I think the only > thing missing is working Turbo (802.11a) mode support in the ath driver, > unless that has been fixed in the past few months. > > Ken > -- > Kenneth Merry > [email protected] > Thanks for the advice! I think the only problem is going to be finding a reputable source to purchase the card from. Wireless has been my only issue with this laptop. With a replaced wireless card and using Daniel O'Connor's guide to configuring the 8600 (http://www.gsoft.com.au/~doconnor/I8600/) this is simply any unbeatable setup. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"