Dell Mini-PCIe Atheros wireless cards

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Just tested two cards that are included with some Dell systems, and are available on the surplus market inexpensively. Both of these are half-sized cards with two antenna connectors.

The DW1506 is a B/G/N card.

The DW1705 is a similar card, but includes Bluetooth.

Both were lightly tested on FreeBSD 10.1-STABLE r275293. Networking seems fine. I do not have any Bluetooth peripherals to test, but FreeBSD detected the Bluetooth circuitry on the DW1705.
 
wblock@ said:
Both were lightly tested on FreeBSD 10.1-STABLE r275293. Networking seems fine.
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I have been experiencing stability issues with a couple of SparkLAN WPEA-127NI (Atheros AR9390). That wasn't a light test in my case, but continuous operation as a wireless AP. In the short term they work just fine too.
 
wblock@ said:
Just tested two cards that are included with some Dell systems, and are available on the surplus market inexpensively. Both of these are half-sized cards with two antenna connectors.

The DW1506 is a B/G/N card.

The DW1705 is a similar card, but includes Bluetooth.

Both were lightly tested on FreeBSD 10.1-STABLE r275293. Networking seems fine. I do not have any Bluetooth peripherals to test, but FreeBSD detected the Bluetooth circuitry on the DW1705.
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Hm, on amazon they get some rather poor reviews.
 
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