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Date:      Sun, 10 Feb 2008 10:20:10 +0300
From:      Lev Serebryakov <lev@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>
Cc:        lev@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re[2]: 802.11n PCI card: what should I buy?
Message-ID:  <10210645868.20080210102010@serebryakov.spb.ru>
In-Reply-To: <47AE2A6A.2060006@errno.com>
References:  <1426760808.20080210001311@serebryakov.spb.ru> <47AE2A6A.2060006@errno.com>

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Hello, Sam.
You wrote 10 ??????? 2008 ?., 1:34:18:

> None right now.  Intel won't license their linux code so we can make a
> usable driver.  I'm not aware of any Marvell-based cards in the retail
> channels (I have a working driver for their hardware).  Atheros is being
> totally uncooperative in general.  Broadcom and Ralink have not shown 
> any interest in the freebsd community (despite being the only system 
> that has working 11n support).
  But `man ath' says:

The ath driver supports all Atheros Cardbus or PCI cards, except those
that are based on the AR5005VL chipset.

  It looks like, that 802.11n cards on atheros are all `mini-PCI', but
maybe, it is possible to adapt them via some PCI2miniPCI adapter?

-- 
// Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov <lev@FreeBSD.org>




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