802.11g cards/2 questions

[Vincent Poy]

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Jesse Guardiani wrote:

> Peter Radcliffe wrote:
>
> > Vincent Poy <vince at oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> probably said:
> >> The D-Link DWLAG520 Desktop A/B/G card for $75 which has the
> >> Mini-PCI card inside that's capable of supporting the SuperA/G 108Mbps
> >> from Atheros.
> >
> > Ooooh. Is support for this only in -CURRENT ?
>
> Actually, I don't think the Turbo mode is currently working. See the
> following post from the ath(4) driver's author on Sep 17th 2003:
>
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.current/30211/match=turbo
>
> But, yes, support is only available in -CURRENT currently. I'm waiting
> for FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE, personally.

	Jesse is right about this one...  the Turbo mode is provided by
the chip but the driver support isn't there yet even in Windows.  Atheros
just seems like it's a better chipset than the Broadcom stuff though.


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