From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 15 19:52:10 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6082916A416 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 19:52:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Received: from ebb.errno.com (ebb.errno.com [69.12.149.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30A8C13C455 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 19:52:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Received: from [10.0.0.248] (trouble.errno.com [10.0.0.248]) (authenticated bits=0) by ebb.errno.com (8.13.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id l0FJWw0U033007 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:32:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Message-ID: <45ABD6EA.3060503@errno.com> Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:32:58 -0800 From: Sam Leffler User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061115) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lars Stokholm References: <45ABBFDF.4080708@gmail.com> <45ABCA16.8040000@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <45ABCA16.8040000@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wireless NIC recommendation X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 19:52:10 -0000 Lars Stokholm wrote: > Lars Stokholm wrote: >> Hi, I hope someone can help me with this, before I go mad (no pun >> intended.) :) >> >> I was initially looking for a relatively cheap 54Mbps, 802.11g- and >> WPA-capable network card, based on an Atheros chipset, but after >> spending the whole of last night looking for one - to no avail - I >> gave up. >> >> I'm almost about to conclude that Atheros is not the way to go. So now >> I want to know, if anyone can recommend ANY card, being cheap and >> supporting the features mentioned above. I don't mind using NDIS, as >> long as it works flawlessly. Also it would be good, if the card was a >> popular one, so community support is more available. >> >> Thanks. > > Oops, forgot to add that it must be PCI. I got a Trendnet pci ath card a while back and it worked fine. Tested it on sparc64 even. Sam