802.11n PCI card: what should I buy?
Lev Serebryakov
lev at FreeBSD.org
Sun Feb 10 07:20:11 UTC 2008
Hello, Sam.
You wrote 10 ??????? 2008 ?., 1:34:18:
> None right now. Intel won't license their linux code so we can make a
> usable driver. I'm not aware of any Marvell-based cards in the retail
> channels (I have a working driver for their hardware). Atheros is being
> totally uncooperative in general. Broadcom and Ralink have not shown
> any interest in the freebsd community (despite being the only system
> that has working 11n support).
But `man ath' says:
The ath driver supports all Atheros Cardbus or PCI cards, except those
that are based on the AR5005VL chipset.
It looks like, that 802.11n cards on atheros are all `mini-PCI', but
maybe, it is possible to adapt them via some PCI2miniPCI adapter?
--
// Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov <lev at FreeBSD.org>
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