Comments on: Card Confusion https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2006/07/19/card-confusion/ A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD. Sun, 23 Jul 2006 10:30:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 By: Joe "Floid" Kanowitz https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2006/07/19/card-confusion/comment-page-1/#comment-1630 Sun, 23 Jul 2006 10:30:10 +0000 http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/index.php/2006/07/19/1782.html#comment-1630 If you’re after (some measure of) 802.11a support, there was recently a glut of Atheros-based NEC “Aterm” “Warpstar” PA-WL/54AG a/b/g cards in the surplus channel. I can’t say I’ve tested with the BSD ath driver, but they’re supported by madwifi on Linux and it was hard to beat the price.

Netgear’s pre-MIMO 802.11g card is (was?) also Atheros, cheap, and probably performed slightly better (due to higher transmit power) than the NEC. My one encounter with a USR MIMO dongle (Broadcom-based, on Windows) did seem to prove that MIMO hardware blows the previous generation out of the water in an indoor environment, so same might be worth noting if a supported MIMO card actually exists.

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