After having realized how highly unreliable USB wifi dongles are under FreeBSD, given that there's no guarantee this or that one will stably work, I've found what seems to me to be a far better solution to be used with both notebooks and even desktops: a mini wireless bridge with Ethernet connection to the computer. Something like NetGear WNCE2001.
Even though it may look like overkill, but it doesn't seem to me so, after I've had enough trouble with my Lenovo notebook's WiFi card and iwn driver. I guess my notebook's module is broken or something (it fails to work under Linux as well), but hey, my GA-Z77N-WiFi motherboard also came with one, but it's broken in FreeBSD. With things going like this a small (3.20 x 2.44 x .70 in) device with excellent capabilities far surpassing any USB module, which is USB powered and which, above all, doesn't NEED a driver in FreeBSD, seems to me to be the best solution.
But perhaps there are better solutions you people have found for FreeBSD? I really love this OS and am not going to change it, so I'm writing all this because I haven't found anything convincing upon the topic "a wireless USB dongle that'll work under FreeBSD".
Even though it may look like overkill, but it doesn't seem to me so, after I've had enough trouble with my Lenovo notebook's WiFi card and iwn driver. I guess my notebook's module is broken or something (it fails to work under Linux as well), but hey, my GA-Z77N-WiFi motherboard also came with one, but it's broken in FreeBSD. With things going like this a small (3.20 x 2.44 x .70 in) device with excellent capabilities far surpassing any USB module, which is USB powered and which, above all, doesn't NEED a driver in FreeBSD, seems to me to be the best solution.
But perhaps there are better solutions you people have found for FreeBSD? I really love this OS and am not going to change it, so I'm writing all this because I haven't found anything convincing upon the topic "a wireless USB dongle that'll work under FreeBSD".