Best "Cheap" Wireless card for FreeBSD

Giorgos Keramidas keramida at ceid.upatras.gr
Sat Jan 6 01:12:19 UTC 2007


On 2007-01-05 18:54, Tsu-Fan Cheng <tfcheng at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi, can u tell me the brand name of the card is?? thanks!!

FWIW, If it helps at all, I'm using for more than a year now a D-link
DWL-AG650 PC-CARD on laptops which I have been working on.  It has an
Atheros chipset, and the ath(4) driver works like a charm, on 6.X and
7.0-CURRENT.

[ pciconf -lv output ]

ath0 at pci4:0:0:	class=0x020000 card=0x3a071186 chip=0x0013168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Atheros Communications Inc.'
    device   = 'AR5212, AR5213 802.11a/b/g Wireless Adapter'
    class    = network
    subclass = ethernet

[ dmesg and /var/log/messages output ]

ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xffa10000-0xffa1ffff at device 0.0 on cardbus0
ath0: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface
ath0: Ethernet address: 00:11:95:ca:e5:e8
ath0: mac 5.9 phy 4.3 radio 3.6

I got it from a Greek online shop for about 35 euros, and it was one of
the best online buys I've ever done :)



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