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

[Lars Engels]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 01:30:30PM -0700, hiren panchasara wrote:
> 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.
> 
> [skip]
> >
> > 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.

From
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=urtwn&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+11-current&arch=default&format=html

CAVEATS
     The urtwn driver does not support any of the 802.11n capabilities offered
     by	the adapters.
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