Hardware reccomendations

Christopher Sean Hilton chris at vindaloo.com
Tue Sep 14 09:20:49 PDT 2004


On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 11:06:57AM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote:
> 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.
> 

Is this supported by NDIS/Project Evil or a native driver? I for one
would prefer a native driver.

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Chris Hilton                                 chilton-at-vindaloo-dot-com
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