Hardware reccomendations

[Eric Anderson]

Ben Nell wrote:
> Hi All:
> 
> I am running FreeBSD 5.2 on a Dell Inspiron 8600, and I am interested
> in swapping out the mini-pci wireless NIC.  It's a Centrino machine,
> and I believe that the 802.11b card that is currently present is a
> Broadcom.  Regardless, it doesn't appear to be supported.  I've used
> the NDIS wrapper driver found in current release, but I'm not happy
> with it's performance and would prefer to just replace the card with a
> well-supported 802.11g card.
> 
> What I'm looking for is a reccomendation of chipset/brand/model from
> anyone.  I'm fairly new to wireless networking and would appreciate
> any insight or personal opinions anyone would care to share.

I bought a 'Netegriti' card (EM-500AG I think), and it works flawlessly.

Eric


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Eric Anderson     Sr. Systems Administrator    Centaur Technology
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