WLAN PCIe HW recommendation for 8.1

[sbremal at hotmail.com]

Hi
 
Hardware notes are fairly succinct about particular hardware for the 'ath' driver:
 
3.5 Wireless Network Interfaces
 
[i386,pc98,amd64,sparc64] The 
ath(4) driver
supports all Atheros Cardbus and PCI cards, except those that are based on the AR5005VL
chipset.
 
For other drivers ('ipw', 'iwi' etc.) there is a list of HW that I can readily order. Do you plan to add such list also for 'ath'?
 
Is there any advantage of choosing Atheros based card and using 'ath' over Intel and 'ipw'.
 
I found it cumbersome to map Atheros chipsets to PCIe cards, most of the time this info is hidden from the adapters data sheet. I must be completely on the wrong way. I would expect 10 min. to pick a PCIe WLAN card from the Freebsd HW notes, order it, plug it in, configure and enjoy. Like with LAN cards, hard disks etc. What do I do wrong?
 
 
Cheers
Balazs

________________________________
> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 06:40:09 -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, 
>  
> 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<mailto: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<mailto:adrian at freebsd.org> 
> > To: sbremal at hotmail.com<mailto:sbremal at hotmail.com> 
> > CC: freebsd-wireless at freebsd.org<mailto: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><mailto: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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