Re: Buffalo/Broadcom wireless N card

["Sepherosa Ziehau" <sepherosa@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Walter <walter@spam.no> wrote:
> Sepherosa Ziehau wrote:
>
> > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Walter <walter@spam.no> wrote:
> >
> > > I'm trying to get a "Buffalo"/Broadcom wireless-N PC card
> > >
> >
> > 11n parts are not supported.
> >
> >
> > >  up and running; I'm intending to use it for a bridge.  In
> > >  contrast to FBSD (which I've already tried and failed to mod
> > >  to talk to this card), I found the device name on a DF page.
> > >
> >
> > I don't think the exact model is listed.
> >
>
>  "BCM43XNG" is listed in here:
>
> http://www.dragonflybsd.org/cvsweb/src/share/misc/pci_vendors.diff?r1=1.8&r2=1.9&f=u
>  so maybe I was just hoping too much.
>
>  I'll turn back to FBSD to beat on that solution again
>  before I break down and buy a wireless-G solution.

If you want 11n support, you can use freebsd current; It has mwl(4),
which is well tested and supported.  Except for mwl(4), you can't find
other drivers in BSD/Linux world that support 11n, at least for now.

Best Regards,
sephe

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