Best supported mini-PCI wifi

[Eric Schuele]

On 12/15/2006 07:49, Nathan Vidican wrote:
> My laptop has the wonderfully under-supported Broadcom wifi card in it. 
> While it does work now with ndiswrapper and a few needed patches; it 
> still doesn't work very well, to say nothing of natively.
> 
> So, what does work? I've checked out the hardware notes for 6.1-R, but 
> to no avail really... 

I don't know if its "the best supported" or not.  But I'm using an 
atheros based card.  And it works quite well.

> I'm looking at an Intel 2915 wireless a/b/g 
> mini-PCI card, as Intel has always been great with supporting FreeBSD 
> and therefore I'd much rather send my business to them... but I know 
> very little about this card and don't know which (if any) driver 
> supports it? Does anyone out there have this card, or another mini-PCI, 
> (preferably not based on a broadcom chip ), that they could recommend?
> 
> If driver's are in the making for the Intel mini-PCI card, I'd be happy 
> to help test as well. Currently running 6.2-RC1/amd64 with some 
> patchwork done to the ndiswrapper kernel module to make it work with 
> newer Broadcom windows drivers.
> 
> -- 
> Nathan Vidican
> nvidican at wmptl.com
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Regards,
Eric