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Best Mini-pci wifi card
by ghdavis@netzero.net
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I just became a proud owner of a net5501. I installed pfsense 2.01 on a small Sata drive and all seems to be working great.
Now my question. Would it be better to hang a wifi router off one of my Ethernet ports or buy a Mini-PCI type III socket wifi card ?? I already have a old Linksys WRT54G with DD-WRT on it. I just have no experience with the little laptop type wifi cards. This probably sounds like a no brainer but I am thinking of building a bridge between the mini wifi card and the WRT54G. any help would be appreciated. Greg Davis _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@... http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech |
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Re: Best Mini-pci wifi card
by Arun Khan-3
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On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 3:28 AM, ghdavis@... <ghdavis@...> wrote:
> I just became a proud owner of a net5501. I installed pfsense 2.01 on a small Sata drive and all seems to be working great. > Now my question. Would it be better to hang a wifi router off one of my Ethernet ports or buy a Mini-PCI type III socket wifi card ?? > I already have a old Linksys WRT54G with DD-WRT on it. I just have no experience with the little laptop type wifi cards. This probably sounds like a no brainer but I am thinking of building a bridge between the mini wifi card and the WRT54G. > any help would be appreciated. No experience with Soekris (but it should work) I have used the TP Link mini PCI card [1] on an ALIX box (similar HW config) with openWRT, works great. The Linux driver is ath9k. [1] <http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833704061> HTH, -- Arun Khan "As a layman, I would say we have it, but as a scientist I have to say, 'What do we have?'" Rolf Heuer, Director General CERN on the announcement of Higgs Boson particle. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@... http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech |
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Re: Best Mini-pci wifi card
by Michael Proto-2
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If you're using pfSense 2.0.1 (FreeBSD 8.2 based IIRC) you'll find the
best compatibility with Atheros cards that do b/g or a/b/g only (no a/b/g/n) using the AR5004 chipset. I believe updated chipset support for the newer a/b/g/n cards is in FreeBSD 9.x but pfSense isn't there yet. One card that I've personally used in a 4501 with FreeBSD 8.x is the following: http://store.netgate.com/5004-MP-ATHEROS-4G-CM9-80211abg-miniPCI-Card-P125C26.aspx -Proto On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 5:58 PM, ghdavis@... <ghdavis@...> wrote: > I just became a proud owner of a net5501. I installed pfsense 2.01 on a small Sata drive and all seems to be working great. > Now my question. Would it be better to hang a wifi router off one of my Ethernet ports or buy a Mini-PCI type III socket wifi card ?? > I already have a old Linksys WRT54G with DD-WRT on it. I just have no experience with the little laptop type wifi cards. This probably sounds like a no brainer but I am thinking of building a bridge between the mini wifi card and the WRT54G. > any help would be appreciated. > Greg Davis > > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > Soekris-tech@... > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@... http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech |
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