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Date:      Sun, 30 May 2010 17:40:23 +0300
From:      Yury Michurin <yury.michurin@gmail.com>
To:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Wireless cards
Message-ID:  <AANLkTikQe_drYGGv6gYFZw1AlYNxmZTxxBn_o9gM81xK@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100526013712.GA67116@chanas.pair.com>
References:  <20100526013712.GA67116@chanas.pair.com>

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Hi,
I'm using D-Link DWA-547 for a couple of months now in hostap mode and it
seems to work grate.
It's a PCI card with atheros chipset.

Yury.


On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 4:37 AM, J. Altman <freebsd-announce@chthonic.com>wrote:

> Greetings...
>
> uname -a
> FreeBSD whisperer.chthonixia.net 8.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2
> #0: Sat May 15 11:47:55 EDT 2010
> root@whisperer.chthonixia.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/WHISPERER  amd64
>
> My Netgear WG311T, with an Atheros chipset, seems to be at its
> end. The box is about thirty feet from the WAP, almost directly in
> line through an open door:
>
> --- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics ---
> 27 packets transmitted, 21 packets received, 22.2% packet loss
> round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 1.811/9.526/35.551/8.051 ms
>
> I see this:
>
>  dmesg | grep "wlan0: link state changed to" | wc
>       9      54     296
>
> Where "up" or "down" follows "to" for a box with this uptime: up 2:04
>
> Over several days, this can occur hundreds of times; and often,
> ifconfig shows this: DS/1 Mbps or similar; then it will bounce back to
> OFDM; bounce around between OFDM bandwidths: then eventually fall to
> DS. This is suboptimal.
>
> So: what are people using these days? The WG311T is old. I've had no
> luck looking for a modern card using an Atheros chip. I don't care who
> makes it; whether it's Atheros or not; nor if it is PCI or PCI-X. I
> just want it to work.
>
> Thanks for any recommendations; and best regards,
>
> Joe
>
>
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