Wireless network cards

Adrian Michael Nida nida at musc.edu
Fri Feb 3 14:03:57 PST 2006


On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 10:45 -0500, Adrian Michael Nida wrote:
> <Snip/>
> > The best supported wireless chip today is atheros. To be hones I am not
> > sure how well it works on dragonflybsd but on the other hand I cannot
> > recall any problem reports on the list.
> <Snip/>
> 
> Andrew Artens posted a patch that got Atheros + WEP working on a 1.2
> release several months ago.  I was converting it to HEAD, but could only
> get as far as a serializer panic when I did a dhclient.  It sounds like
> I need to push life out of the way, and pick this back up.
> 
> Adrian

I've got it working on HEAD now.  If you'd like to test it out (PLEASE
PLEASE PLEASE), see the note here:

http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/submit/2006-02/msg00009.html

Thanks,

Adrian






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