Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:35:06 -0600 From: Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org> To: Nathan Vidican <nathan@vidican.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best supported mini-PCI wifi Message-ID: <4582CEBA.5020806@computer.org> In-Reply-To: <4582A7D6.6010203@vidican.com> References: <4582A7D6.6010203@vidican.com>
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On 12/15/2006 07:49, Nathan Vidican wrote: > My laptop has the wonderfully under-supported Broadcom wifi card in it. > While it does work now with ndiswrapper and a few needed patches; it > still doesn't work very well, to say nothing of natively. > > So, what does work? I've checked out the hardware notes for 6.1-R, but > to no avail really... I don't know if its "the best supported" or not. But I'm using an atheros based card. And it works quite well. > I'm looking at an Intel 2915 wireless a/b/g > mini-PCI card, as Intel has always been great with supporting FreeBSD > and therefore I'd much rather send my business to them... but I know > very little about this card and don't know which (if any) driver > supports it? Does anyone out there have this card, or another mini-PCI, > (preferably not based on a broadcom chip ), that they could recommend? > > If driver's are in the making for the Intel mini-PCI card, I'd be happy > to help test as well. Currently running 6.2-RC1/amd64 with some > patchwork done to the ndiswrapper kernel module to make it work with > newer Broadcom windows drivers. > > -- > Nathan Vidican > nvidican@wmptl.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Regards, Eric
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