recommendations for wireless nics

2007-02-03 Thread Paul Eskello
Hi all, looking for any recommendations regarding wireless lan pci cards and freebsd, please. Thx in advance. Cheers, Paul ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: recommendations for wireless nics

2007-02-03 Thread Steve Franks
Don't get the motorolas; you can check, but classically, they all have non-open-source (and therefore unsupported) broadcom chipsets. My usual method is to type in the model number of the card and chipset into a google search, which ususally works. I'd say the atheros cards are most widely used

Re: recommendations for wireless nics

2007-02-03 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 06:53:28PM +0100, Paul Eskello wrote: Hi all, looking for any recommendations regarding wireless lan pci cards and freebsd, please. It is impossible to give a general recommendation like buy brand X, model Y. Manufacturers sometimes switch chipsets on their cards