On Sat, 2013-01-05 at 20:15 -0700, Warren Block wrote: > On Sat, 5 Jan 2013, Frank Mayhar wrote: > > Seeing as the Intel Ultimate-N 6300 that's in my new Dell doesn't work > > in 9-stable (see related email here), I'm looking for a card that _does_ > > work. Can anyone recommend a decent 11a/g/n card that works well? At > > least for 11a and 11g, I realize that 11n is still under heavy > > development, thanks, Adrian! It obviously needs to be a mini-pcie card. > Careful, there are two sizes of mini-PCIe cards, full- and half-, and > between one and three antenna connections.
Yeah, I'm planning on picking up a half-size card. I don't know how many antenna connections the current card has bit it's at least two and quite likely three. >From reading lists and comments here and there it looks like and Atheros-based card is the way to go but I was hoping for a concrete recommendation. I'm currently using an AR5413-based card in another laptop but it suffers from regular device timeouts and poor performance. > Another important consideration is that Lenovo and HP machines have BIOS > whitelists that only allow certain cards to work. Not an issue for me, this is a Dell Latitude E6530. > > Suggestions greatly appreciated. Links even more appreciated. :-) > > Thanks! > There's a page on the wiki with Atheros hardware support, but the wiki > is down right now. Yeah, I tried that. Thanks. -- Frank Mayhar [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wireless To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
