wireless NIC recommendations?

Sam Leffler sam at errno.com
Tue Dec 5 21:35:08 PST 2006


Paul Dokas wrote:
> I'm in the market for a new wireless card for my laptop and I'd like to
> get some recommendations about which cards to look for and which ones to
> avoid.
> 
> I've got a Dell Latitude D820 with a builtin intel 3945 a/b/g card (that
> does not work with the unsupported driver that's floating around).  I've
> been using it with a generic ATH based card:
> 
>   http://www.netgate.com/product_info.php?products_id=130
> 
> But, I'm getting lots of odd behavior including random panics.  I strongly
> suspect that something is wrong with the card as the panics _never_ happen
> unless the card is in use.

It would be nice if you provided details on these "random panics".  I am
not aware of any ath-related panics.

	Sam


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