wireless card recommendation for laptop

[Brad Schonhorst]

On Sep 21, 2005, at 9:15 AM, Marcin Jessa wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 08:58:11 +0200
> "anon anon" <anonymous_messiah at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>> Im currently looking to purchase a wireless card, preferably mini- 
>> pci for my
>> thinkpad R40.  Are there any well supported mpi/pcmcia cards for  
>> fbsd.
>> Please don_t mention the cisco mpi350 as this card has not worked  
>> for me
>> since 4.10.   This card only works for about 5 minutes or until it  
>> is placed
>> under reasonable load.  It then timeouts and cannot be brought up  
>> unless the
>> system is power cycled.  And yes, I have downgraded the firmware  
>> to 5.00.1
>> or whatever it is numerous times.  I need a card that is known to  
>> work
>> without problems under 5.x.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>
> Use an Atheros based card.

Just be prepared to run FreeBSD 6.  In my experience, Atheros support  
in 5.x is not good.  Much work has been put into the ath driver since  
then.


-brad

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Brad Schonhorst
Network Administrator
Village Community School