Hello! Is there a wireless card (or even a chipset), that is most recommended with Free BSD 8.0 (or PC BSD 8.0 RC2).
I have already found the appropriate section of the hardware notes (http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.0R/hardware.html#WLAN), but this is quite a long list, and no specific reviews are available.
I'm thus interested whether somebody has experience with WPA (or WPA-2) capable PCI wireless adapters working out of the box on Free BSD.
Currently, I have a Edimax EW-7128g (Ralink chipset), which did not work for me: from its normal position it could not detect any wireless networks at all; placing it close to my AP (a few cm distance), it could see the wireless network but could not connect to it (even after temporarely disabling WPA).
Now to tell the truth, I suspect that this is a hardware issue, since it cannot find any wireless networks also under Windows. HOWEVER: under Windows, when I tried moving it very near to my access point, it could not only detect the access point but also connect to it. So it still might be that my card is not fully supported under FreeBSD.
I have lost much time in experimenting, now I'd rather prefer buying a new adapter that is sure fully supported, so that I could actually get back to do some productive work
I have already found the appropriate section of the hardware notes (http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.0R/hardware.html#WLAN), but this is quite a long list, and no specific reviews are available.
I'm thus interested whether somebody has experience with WPA (or WPA-2) capable PCI wireless adapters working out of the box on Free BSD.
Currently, I have a Edimax EW-7128g (Ralink chipset), which did not work for me: from its normal position it could not detect any wireless networks at all; placing it close to my AP (a few cm distance), it could see the wireless network but could not connect to it (even after temporarely disabling WPA).
Now to tell the truth, I suspect that this is a hardware issue, since it cannot find any wireless networks also under Windows. HOWEVER: under Windows, when I tried moving it very near to my access point, it could not only detect the access point but also connect to it. So it still might be that my card is not fully supported under FreeBSD.
I have lost much time in experimenting, now I'd rather prefer buying a new adapter that is sure fully supported, so that I could actually get back to do some productive work
