wireless card recommendation

Andrew China freebsd at teratism.net
Wed Feb 18 01:47:33 PST 2004


I've had luck with Netgear MA401 PCMCIA cards in a Belkin F5D6000 PLX PCI
adapter.

The MA401 uses the Prism chipset and the Belkin adapter is PCI 2.1

You can find these on eBay. I've had good luck with the two sets I have. 
I've upgraded the firmware to the latest and have used them in Access 
Point mode with HostAP drivers. Worked fine with some generic ADMtek cards.

This page was helpful, though you have to watch out since some brands 
change chipsets without changing the model numbers.
http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/Client_5fAdapters_5f802_5f11b

Read some bad things about the quality of MA401 cards on the web, but the
two I have seem to be fine. Haven't really stressed them though.

Andrew

Quoting Neil Camara <neil-on-mobile at restricted.dyndns.org>:

> Hey guys, 
> 
> I've given up with troubleshooting my Dlink DWL-520 wireless card. I would 
> like to seek advice from you guys of what wireless 802.11b card will you 
> recommend for a not so new motherboard? Looks like mine now is not a PCI 
> 2.2. 
> 
> Any help will be appreciated. 
> 
> Thanks. 
> 
> Neil
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