TP LINK has no power when plugged in

I've had success with two or three Atheros chipsets, RAlink (ral(4)) (I think, can't recall what it was in), and Realtek 8187 (urtw(4)). Have only had old Intel cards to try, but they mostly work.

Atheros is good, probably the best supported on FreeBSD, but only for some chipsets. I've even used an Atheros AR5008 in 802.11n mode with FreeBSD 9 and Adrian Chadd's new work.
 
Yes, it's weird, one would expect that all chips by one manufacturer work but that's obviously not the case. I found this old pci card, I think it's 2.5 years old and one reboot was enough for it to come to life, a bit of messing around with password to my router and that's it. Life is a bit easier now when I can surf without starting Win7 or using Galaxy Tab :)
 
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