On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 04:33:17PM -0400, Brandon Falk wrote: > Reverse engineering a whole driver could take a very long time, even with the > proper tools. If it's possible, return the adapter, and buy a new one and > verify > that the chipset is supported before you buy it. Last time I bought a wireless > card I sat in the store looking at the Wireless support list for BSD before > buying. > > http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/CURRENT/hardware/support.html#WLAN > > I very strongly suggest that you get a card with an Atheros chipset, as those > are by far the best supported on BSD.
sure, but how? I've tried very hard to get a pccard with an atheros chip, but you just can't trust the label. Guides like e.g. this: http://atheros.rapla.net/ are unreliable. I've bought several cards, which supposedly have an atheros chip in them, only to discover they had something else inside. Can you recommend a pccard model that is guaranteed to have a supported atheros chip inside? -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
