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Date:      Wed, 31 Dec 2003 16:55:51 -0800
From:      Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>
To:        David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ATH card choices.
Message-ID:  <200312311655.51902.sam@errno.com>
In-Reply-To: <16371.11813.267421.653806@canoe.dclg.ca>
References:  <16371.11813.267421.653806@canoe.dclg.ca>

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On Wednesday 31 December 2003 12:14 pm, David Gilbert wrote:
> I'm excited about the ath card support and am looking to get one.
> eBay is currently offering one at $99 US ... that is listed as:
>
> Netegriti EM-500AG with Main Chipset: Atheros AR5212, AR5111, AR2111.
>
> Is this card known to anyone?  Known to work, hopefully?
> Alternatively, does it have the right chips to be a candidate to work?
>
> The card is a mini-PCI formfactor and they have 87 available.

Anything using Atheros parts should work with the current driver.  The 5212 is 
the MAC of choice; it can do some very useful stuff not yet supported by the 
driver but coming soon (e.g.  multi-rate retry, QoS, compression, XR mode, 
etc.).  The 5111/2111 radios are the "previous generation" and have been 
replaced by the 5112/2112 which are noticeably better.  $99 is a bit high 
given that these radios are "last years model".

	Sam



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