WiFi 802.11/ac PCIe supported adaptor

[O. Hartmann]

Am Sun, 28 Sep 2014 00:22:09 +0200
Lars Engels <lars.engels at 0x20.net> schrieb:

> On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 02:38:30PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote:
> > 
> > I'm looking for a replacemnt for my 802.11g WiFi PCIe adaptor card and want to
> > replace it with an 802.11ac adaptor.
> > 
> > Since I made very bad experiences with CURRENT and support of modest modern hardware
> > (Haswell CPU/Intel  7260 DualBand WiFi NIC), I'd like to ask here first.
> > 
> > I found this PCIe adaptor card attractive:
> > 
> > GigaByte Gigabyte GC-WB867D-I
> > 
> > I can not find ad hoc the WLAN chip used on that specific card, but maybe someone has
> > experiences with that litte board.
> 
> FreeBSD doensn't support 802.11ac, yet.

I'm bitter aware of that. This OS doesn't support the chipsets, even if they provide also
11a/g/n.

We have at our department now a bunch of Lenovo hardware, with Intels 7260 chipset. The
laptops are now runninmg Ubuntu 14.0X something which obviously supports the WiFi chip.
I'm the last man standing with FreeBSD on my private Lenovo :-(
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