Wi-Fi support - which iface works better?

[Yuri]

igor krasnoselski wrote:
> I'm up to build a little Wi-Fi network at my home. So I need to know, what Wi-Fi NIC is working better under FreeBSD 7.1, from the next little list:
> ZyXEL G-302 EE
> D-link DWA-510
> ASUS WL-138g V2
> TRENDnet TEW-423PI
> P.S. Digging the "7.1 Hardware Notes" on the Web gave me no information about that cards. Please note me if they are supported at all.
>
> WBR, Igor Krasnoselski
>   

This depends on the card chipset. It's sometimes hard to tell by the 
card model and I don't
know which chipsets these cards have.

I used two cards with chipsets: Atheros 5212 (ath) and Ralink Technology 
RT2561S (ral).
Both of them don't work in a stable way under 71-PRERELEASE and in a 
very similar way.

Connections get broken, link goes down sporadically. 'up scan' hangs, 
pings often don't go
through after link is established, 'airdump' command stops working after 
a while on both
of them.

Based on these experiences i came to a conclusion that WiFi support 
isn't stable yet in FreeBSD.

Yuri