Recommend Off the Shelf USB Wireless N - FreeBSD 9.3/10.0

hiren panchasara hiren.panchasara at gmail.com
Tue Aug 12 20:30:33 UTC 2014


On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Patrick Powell <papowell at astart.com> wrote:
> Could anybody please please recommend a USB adapter for Wireless N that:
>
> a) works with the current set of drivers for FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE or
> 10.0-RELEASE
I think

Edimax EW-7811Un -
http://www.amazon.com/Edimax-EW-7811Un-Adapter-Raspberry-Supports/dp/B003MTTJOY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1407874904&sr=8-1&keywords=Edimax+EW-7811Un

should work on 10.0-RELEASE.

'man 4 urtwn'  for more details.

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>
> I'll bet there are other folks besides myself who would be grateful for such
> a posting.
>
> Also,  this would be an opportunity to update the FreeBSD USB Adapter list.
> If there are responses to this posting,   I would suggest that a summary be
> posted to one of the more general FreeBSD mailing lists.

fwiw, http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/CURRENT/hardware/support.html
mentions urtwn and the chipset.

cheers,
Hiren


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