> On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 03:20:24PM +0200, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > > Matt Brenneke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Nevermind that "almost working" comment, if I walk more than 15 feet > > > away from the base station the signal goes from 75 to 0. Time to dump > > > this cheap card. Does anyone know if ath works well with a pci 2.1? > > > > Yes, I've got an ath based card (a D-Link DWL-AG520) working fine in my > > home gateway. According to the ath(4) man page, D-Link has several > > models which should work. One notable exception is the DWL-G520+ card, > > which is based on Intel's super-secret acx111 chip. Stay away from that > > one. For my laptop I got a D-Link DWL-AG650, which works without any > > fuss at all. A writeup will turn up soonish somewhere near my PF sermon. > > The chipset is actually by TI (Texas Instruments), not Intel.
And it is super secret, and TI won't tell us anything about it, because it is CRAP CRAP CRAP and the Chinese and Taiwanese chipsets are about to eat their stock value for breakfast.
