WLAN PCIe HW recommendation for 8.1

[Adrian Chadd]

Hi,

Anything that has an Atheros chip on it, is pcie and does 11abg is fine.
2315/2417/5414 should all be fine.



-adrian


On 30 September 2013 06:29, <sbremal at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks, any particular HW that you would recommend? Do not mind if it is
> not the fastest with the latest features though want 'zero' network outage.
>
> I believe there were cards you plugged in and you were happy with. Which
> card has which chipset is not always obvious on the major shopping sites.
>
>
> Thanks
> Balazs
>
> ________________________________
> > Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 06:13:54 -0700
> > Subject: Re: WLAN PCIe HW recommendation for 8.1
> > From: adrian at freebsd.org
> > To: sbremal at hotmail.com
> > CC: freebsd-wireless at freebsd.org
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > The most stable PCIe WLAN NICs by far will be the 802.11abg Atheros
> > devices. The 11n stuff became stable in 10.0.
> >
> >
> > -adrian
> >
> >
> > On 30 September 2013 06:10,
> > <sbremal at hotmail.com<mailto:sbremal at hotmail.com>> wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > Would anyone recommend a PCIe WLAN card for 8.1? It is for a production
> > machine so stability is of prime importance.
> >
> > Honestly, a bit confused what HW to pick after going through 'Hardware
> > Matrix' at
> > 'https://wiki.freebsd.org/dev/ath_hal%284%29/HardwareSupport'.
> >
> > I do not want to upgrade to release 9 ... unless it is really necessary.
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> > Balazs
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