Reliable wireless card for 9-stable?

[Frank Mayhar]

On Sat, 2013-01-05 at 20:15 -0700, Warren Block wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, I'm planning on picking up a half-size card.  I don't know how
many antenna connections the current card has bit it's at least two and
quite likely three.

From reading lists and comments here and there it looks like and
Atheros-based card is the way to go but I was hoping for a concrete
recommendation.  I'm currently using an AR5413-based card in another
laptop but it suffers from regular device timeouts and poor performance.

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

Not an issue for me, this is a Dell Latitude E6530.

> > 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.

Yeah, I tried that.  Thanks.
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Frank Mayhar
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