Brett Glass wrote: > At 10:09 PM 1/3/2007, Sunnz wrote: > >> I am looking to build a new desktop which is going to have wireless >> access through my router. >> >> I have been using Atheros's chipset with the ath drivers, yes it works... >> >> But after read this article: >> http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/293 >> >> I begin to think if there are better vendors out there? >> >> From the article it seems that Ralink and Atmel are the most >> co-operative vendors to open source communities... >> >> So how good do you think they are? > > The best for 802.11b (not g, alas) is undoubtedly the Intersil > Prism 2.5 and kin. This is in large measure because the chipset > contains a lot of embedded intelligence. The load on the host > CPU is therefore very light and there's less opportunity for > coding mistakes in the host driver. And the embedded firmware > is now as about error-free as any wireless code is going to get. > Atmel's 802.11b chipsets use the Intersil Prism, by the way. >
Doesn't Intersil Prism chipsets require alot of PIO (non-DMA) operations to communicate and therefore tax the host CPU considerably? I was to understand the reason the Prism chipsets are considered so inefficient in comparison to Atheros was the time wasteful interaction. Perhaps i was under the wrong impression? -- Sten Daniel Sørsdal _______________________________________________ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
