Wireless NIC recommendation

Lars Stokholm lars.stokholm at gmail.com
Mon Jan 15 20:54:30 UTC 2007


John Nielsen wrote:
> On Monday 15 January 2007 12:54, Lars Stokholm wrote:
>> Hi, I hope someone can help me with this, before I go mad (no pun
>> intended.) :)
>>
>> I was initially looking for a relatively cheap 54Mbps, 802.11g- and
>> WPA-capable network card, based on an Atheros chipset, but after
>> spending the whole of last night looking for one - to no avail - I gave up.
>>
>> I'm almost about to conclude that Atheros is not the way to go. So now I
>> want to know, if anyone can recommend ANY card, being cheap and
>> supporting the features mentioned above. I don't mind using NDIS, as
>> long as it works flawlessly. Also it would be good, if the card was a
>> popular one, so community support is more available.
> 
> For driver support in FreeBSD, Atheros is definitely the way to go. Have you 
> looked through the listings here?
> 
> http://customerproducts.atheros.com/customerproducts/default.asp

Wow, I actually think I found a card there, that is guaranteed to work. 
Is this really the end of all my struggles? :) For only 50 USD. There 
seem to be only one version of the card.

http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=12
http://edbpriser.dk/Products/Listprices.asp?ID=38373 (in Danish)

The two cards /are/ the same, right?

Also, it says 108Mps? Does it matter that my AP is only 54Mbps?


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