Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 08:21:26 -1000 (HST) From: Vincent Poy <vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> To: Jesse Guardiani <jesse@wingnet.net> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 802.11g cards/2 questions Message-ID: <20030919082023.P64375-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> In-Reply-To: <bkf5sf$9li$1@sea.gmane.org>
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On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Jesse Guardiani wrote: > Peter Radcliffe wrote: > > > Vincent Poy <vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> probably said: > >> The D-Link DWLAG520 Desktop A/B/G card for $75 which has the > >> Mini-PCI card inside that's capable of supporting the SuperA/G 108Mbps > >> from Atheros. > > > > Ooooh. Is support for this only in -CURRENT ? > > Actually, I don't think the Turbo mode is currently working. See the > following post from the ath(4) driver's author on Sep 17th 2003: > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.current/30211/match=turbo > > But, yes, support is only available in -CURRENT currently. I'm waiting > for FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE, personally. Jesse is right about this one... the Turbo mode is provided by the chip but the driver support isn't there yet even in Windows. Atheros just seems like it's a better chipset than the Broadcom stuff though. Cheers, Vince - vince@WURLDLINK.NET - Vice President ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] WurldLink Corporation / / / / | / | __] ] San Francisco - Honolulu - Hong Kong / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] Almighty1@IRC - oahu.DAL.NET Hawaii's DALnet IRC Network Server Admin
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