please recommend wireless card for amd64 laptop (mini pci (pci-e) or pcmcia)
I'd like to set up wireless on amd64 laptop. Can somebody recommend a mini pci (pci-e) or pcimcia device, that is proven to work? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: please recommend wireless card for amd64 laptop (mini pci (pci-e) or pcmcia)
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: I'd like to set up wireless on amd64 laptop. Can somebody recommend a mini pci (pci-e) or pcimcia device, that is proven to work? Look into ath(4) manual page. Just dont buy newest stuff from atheros because there is no 100% support for it. many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: please recommend wireless card for amd64 laptop (mini pci (pci-e) or pcmcia)
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 02:58:52PM +0200, herbs wrote: The best way to be sure about the compatibility is to take your laptop to the computer store and plug in the card of your choice. Some combinations just make trouble, thats why I recommend it. well.. that's why I'm asking. My laptop is HP Compaq 6715s. For example, I can see lots of iwn(4) pci-e cards on sale, but all I've seen say in big letters not for HP ... laptops. So I was hoping to hear from somebody who is using wireless on an amd64 laptop, perhaps even on 6715s, which, it seems, is quite popular, of a model that is proven to work ok, either pci-e or pcmcia. many thanks anton #dmesg - will show you what device the card is (i.e. ath0 for the Atheros chipset) #ifconfig ath0 list scan - should list a couple of access points If that works and if your laptop shows no errors while it boots you will be fine with the certain card. Cheers herbs On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 10:18:14AM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I'd like to set up wireless on amd64 laptop. Can somebody recommend a mini pci (pci-e) or pcimcia device, that is proven to work? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- *** Herbert Langhans, Warschau *** Sprachtraining Langhans *** http://www.langhans.com.pl *** herbert at langhans.com.pl *** NIP 526-229-61-51 *** Regon 014911759 *** Tel. 603 341 441 -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: please recommend wireless card for amd64 laptop (mini pci (pci-e) or pcmcia)
On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 02:58:52PM +0200, herbs wrote: The best way to be sure about the compatibility is to take your laptop to the computer store and plug in the card of your choice. Some combinations just make trouble, thats why I recommend it. well.. that's why I'm asking. My laptop is HP Compaq 6715s. For example, I can see lots of iwn(4) pci-e cards on sale, but all I've seen say in big letters not for HP ... laptops. HP and IBM have BIOS checks that limit which cards can be used. So I was hoping to hear from somebody who is using wireless on an amd64 laptop, perhaps even on 6715s, which, it seems, is quite popular, of a model that is proven to work ok, either pci-e or pcmcia. AFAIK, bwn(4)/bwi(4) should work on amd64. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
