On Sun, Jan 04, 2015 at 11:27:54PM +0100, Tom Van Looy wrote: > Hi > > My laptop (HP ProBook 6560b) has a Broadcom BCM4313 wifi card. Seems like > it's not supported (there is also a thread on misc@ about this card). > > I want to buy a new card. What mini PCI express card is the best card you > can buy? > > For example, there are a lot of cards in the iwn driver. I can buy a "Intel > Centrino Ultimate-N 6300" or "Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6235" for around 30 > euro, but I can also buy a "Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2230" for 13 euro
Any of the above should work with iwn(4). I'd suggest to get one of these, whichever matches your budget and requirements best. Note that some laptop brands have an artificial limitation where they refuse to boot if the wireless card has a PCI ID unknown to the BIOS. Not sure if this is a problem with HP but Lenovo Thinkpads do have this problem. In these cases the card needs to be compatible with both the laptop and OpenBSD. > or something non Intel like "Realtek RTL8192CE" for 20 euro. This Realtek PCI card is not supported yet. Its USB dongle cousins are supported by urtwn(4). But the PCI ones don't work, unfortunately. > They all should be supported, but I'm not sure what to expect. Any > suggestions? > > Kind regards, > > Tom
