Reliable wireless card for 9-stable?

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Sun Jan 6 03:15:55 UTC 2013


On Sat, 5 Jan 2013, Frank Mayhar wrote:

> Seeing as the Intel Ultimate-N 6300 that's in my new Dell doesn't work
> in 9-stable (see related email here), I'm looking for a card that _does_
> work.  Can anyone recommend a decent 11a/g/n card that works well?  At
> least for 11a and 11g, I realize that 11n is still under heavy
> development, thanks, Adrian!  It obviously needs to be a mini-pcie card.

Careful, there are two sizes of mini-PCIe cards, full- and half-, and 
between one and three antenna connections.

Another important consideration is that Lenovo and HP machines have BIOS 
whitelists that only allow certain cards to work.

> Suggestions greatly appreciated.  Links even more appreciated. :-)
> Thanks!

There's a page on the wiki with Atheros hardware support, but the wiki 
is down right now.


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