Thought I share good news as well: 1. Temporarily switched to power line network, so the server is 'wireless' and functions as wanted. Speed dropped from about 1.2 Mbit within the apartment to 300 Kbit between the 2 floors, however, reliability is over speed in my case. There was no need to upgrade the server from R8.1 either.
2. In the meantime did a test with R10 beta. Booted the server yesterday night from a R10 memory stick, configured a TL-WDN4800, and voila, about 700 Mbit without much tuning (AP is 5 years old). (Manual config after boot did not seem to work, but mounting the pen drive in write mode and updating rc.conf, wpa_supplicant.conf cut it.) I will do a full night test the next days. Wonder if beta releases count as normal release from the upgrading perspective? I could start with R10 beta on a 2nd disk, it will take a while until all ports are reinstalled, configured etc. Once this is done (I will take my time) R10 final should be out. Question is: R10 beta -> R10 final upgrade is just like any other upgrade? Or, shall I wait 1 month for the final R10? Cheers Balazs ---------------------------------------- > From: sbre...@hotmail.com > To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org > Subject: RE: WLAN PCIe HW recommendation for 8.1 > Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 08:53:27 +0000 > > 'wikidevi.com' is the answer to all questions. Many thanks! > > Wonder if there is a link to 'wikidevi.com' on the FreeBSD WLAN driver > project site... > > > Cheers > Balazs > > ---------------------------------------- >> Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 14:10:37 -0600 >> From: wbl...@wonkity.com >> To: sbre...@hotmail.com >> CC: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org >> Subject: RE: WLAN PCIe HW recommendation for 8.1 >> >> On Mon, 7 Oct 2013, sbre...@hotmail.com wrote: >> >>> I found it cumbersome to map Atheros chipsets to PCIe cards, most of >>> the time this info is hidden from the adapters data sheet. I must be >>> completely on the wrong way. I would expect 10 min. to pick a PCIe >>> WLAN card from the Freebsd HW notes, order it, plug it in, configure >>> and enjoy. Like with LAN cards, hard disks etc. What do I do wrong? >> >> A search at wikidevi.com for "atheros pcie" finds a few PCIe cards, and >> a bunch of mini-PCIe cards. There might be a better search term to show >> just desktop-type PCIe. >> >> There are adapter cards to put a mini-PCIe card in a PCIe slot, which >> provides more versatility. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wireless > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-wireless-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wireless To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-wireless-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
