From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 6 03:42:22 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E87475D for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2013 03:42:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank@exit.com) Received: from tinker.exit.com (unknown [IPv6:2001:470:f0fd:0:2e0:81ff:fe2b:acbc]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7984EB for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2013 03:42:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from jill.exit.com (jill.exit.com [IPv6:2001:470:f0fd:0:2e0:81ff:febc:fdcc]) by tinker.exit.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id r063gK9p011632; Sat, 5 Jan 2013 19:42:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from frank@exit.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=exit.com; s=tinker; t=1357443741; bh=wMkziV5cUwKAlkNdioI1CW2axhUzvfG6kFythciQt+Y=; h=Subject:From:Reply-To:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:References:Date; b=KD8G476li837RAzBVoGSzxaAYgau08VoggyU0jvwOsq1CEEvGVeirHIO9ZW9EhhhK BuJpVHUGgf46eqMRH98lJhESI9iAbVHglUlEYwpexuk0agX6UTtSefOpVYrThGuczP sxomcVPwt27WrjzYxtDX0j11wV6Lk6PJCHCQJGNY= Received: from jill.exit.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jill.exit.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id r063fvqY068059; Sat, 5 Jan 2013 19:41:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from frank@exit.com) Received: (from frank@localhost) by jill.exit.com (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id r063fvpv068058; Sat, 5 Jan 2013 19:41:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from frank@exit.com) X-Authentication-Warning: jill.exit.com: frank set sender to frank@exit.com using -f Subject: Re: Reliable wireless card for 9-stable? From: Frank Mayhar To: Warren Block In-Reply-To: References: <1357430854.50885.4.camel@jill.exit.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Organization: Exit Consulting Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2013 19:41:57 -0800 Message-ID: <1357443717.50885.10.camel@jill.exit.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Cc: freebsd-wireless X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: frank@exit.com List-Id: "Discussions of 802.11 stack, tools device driver development." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2013 03:42:22 -0000 On Sat, 2013-01-05 at 20:15 -0700, Warren Block wrote: > On Sat, 5 Jan 2013, Frank Mayhar wrote: > > Seeing as the Intel Ultimate-N 6300 that's in my new Dell doesn't work > > in 9-stable (see related email here), I'm looking for a card that _does= _ > > work. Can anyone recommend a decent 11a/g/n card that works well? At > > least for 11a and 11g, I realize that 11n is still under heavy > > development, thanks, Adrian! It obviously needs to be a mini-pcie card= . > Careful, there are two sizes of mini-PCIe cards, full- and half-, and=20 > between one and three antenna connections. Yeah, I'm planning on picking up a half-size card. I don't know how many antenna connections the current card has bit it's at least two and quite likely three. =46rom reading lists and comments here and there it looks like and Atheros-based card is the way to go but I was hoping for a concrete recommendation. I'm currently using an AR5413-based card in another laptop but it suffers from regular device timeouts and poor performance. > Another important consideration is that Lenovo and HP machines have BIOS= =20 > whitelists that only allow certain cards to work. Not an issue for me, this is a Dell Latitude E6530. > > Suggestions greatly appreciated. Links even more appreciated. :-) > > Thanks! > There's a page on the wiki with Atheros hardware support, but the wiki= =20 > is down right now. Yeah, I tried that. Thanks. --=20 Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com