On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 09:20:27AM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > 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? >
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