Re: Looking for Mini PCI Express wireless card suggestions

2015-01-05 Thread Tom Van Looy
Seems that HP has an driver for Intel cards that should work with my laptop. Maybe there is some hope for it to work after all. ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp56501-57000/sp56752.html On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 10:04 PM, Tom Van Looy wrote: > Thank you for warning me about the BIOS! I just tried wit

Re: Looking for Mini PCI Express wireless card suggestions

2015-01-05 Thread Tom Van Looy
Thank you for warning me about the BIOS! I just tried with an Intel card from an old machine (Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG) and the BIOS indeed disables the card. I also had a USB device lying around which came with my TV :-) it's an Atheros AR9271 rev 1. It works and allows me to go sit in the couc

Re: Looking for Mini PCI Express wireless card suggestions

2015-01-05 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2015-01-05, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Sun, Jan 04, 2015 at 11:27:54PM +0100, Tom Van Looy wrote: >> Hi >> >> My laptop (HP ProBook 6560b) has a Broadcom BCM4313 wifi card. Seems like >> it's not supported (there is also a thread on misc@ about this card). >> >> I want to buy a new card. Wha

Re: Looking for Mini PCI Express wireless card suggestions

2015-01-05 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Mon, Jan 05, 2015 at 08:32:11AM +0100, Tom Van Looy wrote: > I think the cheapest (Wireless-N 2230) is ok because they all are 300 > Mbit/s and OpenBSD doesn't support bluetooth. > > And you would recommend iwn and not something else? iwn is working well for me on several laptops.

Re: Looking for Mini PCI Express wireless card suggestions

2015-01-04 Thread Tom Van Looy
I think the cheapest (Wireless-N 2230) is ok because they all are 300 Mbit/s and OpenBSD doesn't support bluetooth. And you would recommend iwn and not something else? On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 8:00 AM, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Sun, Jan 04, 2015 at 11:27:54PM +0100, Tom Van Looy wrote: > > Hi >

Re: Looking for Mini PCI Express wireless card suggestions

2015-01-04 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Sun, Jan 04, 2015 at 11:27:54PM +0100, Tom Van Looy wrote: > Hi > > My laptop (HP ProBook 6560b) has a Broadcom BCM4313 wifi card. Seems like > it's not supported (there is also a thread on misc@ about this card). > > I want to buy a new card. What mini PCI express card is the best card you >

Looking for Mini PCI Express wireless card suggestions

2015-01-04 Thread Tom Van Looy
Hi My laptop (HP ProBook 6560b) has a Broadcom BCM4313 wifi card. Seems like it's not supported (there is also a thread on misc@ about this card). I want to buy a new card. What mini PCI express card is the best card you can buy? For example, there are a lot of cards in the iwn driver. I can buy