Recommendation for wireless network card (PCI/USB)

[Nate Eldredge]

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Andrew Thompson wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 11:30:35AM -0800, Nate Eldredge wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I am looking to get a wireless Ethernet card (802.11g) for my desktop
>> FreeBSD box.  I would appreciate hearing from anyone who has found a card
>> that works well.  It should be PCI or USB.  Ideally, I'd prefer one with a
>> fully open-source driver if possible.
>>
>> The machine in question is running 6.2/amd64, if it makes a difference.
>>
>> I did some searching, but all the results I found were several years old
>> and refer to cards that are not on the market anymore.
>
> Atheros cards are by far the best supported, see
> http://customerproducts.atheros.com/customerproducts/default.asp

Ok.  I see that the Atheros drivers have a binary-only part, as described 
by ath_hal(4).  Can you confirm that this works on amd64?  Often vendors 
are lazy about writing drivers for anything but i386.  :(

Btw, the Atheros site you link to doesn't seem to work.  All my searches 
yield a server error page.  Very confidence-inspiring...

Thanks!

-- 
Nate Eldredge
nge at cs.hmc.edu