Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 18:33:53 -0500 From: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sudden need for a wireless card for 5.3 Message-ID: <ef10de9a05061516334a8b92d4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <17071.17666.159804.687239@guru.mired.org> References: <17071.17666.159804.687239@guru.mired.org>
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On 6/14/05, Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> wrote: > I suddenly find myself in need of a wireless card for a 5.3 desktop box. >=20 > Anyone want to recommend something? PLANET WL-8310, $30: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=3DN82E16833322201 http://www.planet.com.tw/news/productnews/WL-8310.htm IIRC this was the cheapest WLAN card I could find that supported FreeBSD's hostap mode. It's listed as having an Atheros chipset in the Linux hostap WLAN list and IIRC I did some fact checking (think maybe it was the FCC report) and it DID have a FreeBSD supported atheros chipset. I was going to buy this card and test it but haven't got around to it yet, this was back in the late fall of last year. Otherwise you could look for a Prism2/2.5/3 chipset based card. Check out the following man pages; ath, wi, and wlan. If you want a grep'able' copy of the Linux wlan list (76K, ASCII text) email me. I had to pull it in HTML form off the website (I can't remember which site though?) and manually format it. it lists 5 things; company name, what wifi it supports i.g. 802.11b or 802.11a etc., model number, interface type i.g. PC-Card, CardBus, PCI, Mini-PCI, etc., and what chipset it uses. I can post it here if you want but like I said earlier, it's 76KB's of plain text.
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