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i really dont know what is the best wifi chip to get ???? would like to get 450mbps but i dont have three hook ups so i guess the 300mbps would be fine for now
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ANYONE????
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There are no currently supported cards that will work at 802.11N speeds.
There are some 802.11N chipsets that will run but only at 'g' speeds.Steve
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Forget about N-speeds with internal slots. Buy new ac-draft accesspoint and get some more speed.
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why would it only work on G speeds
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so even tho the chip set is for BSD it will only get wireless G speeds
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why would it only work on G speeds
Because even though there are some drivers for 802.11N chipsets there is no kernel support for the protocols required to make use of the addtional bandwidth, as I understand it. ;)
802.11N support is a work in progress in FreeBSD and different chipsets will have wildly varying levels of functionality. That's if you're running the very lastest bleeding edge code. pfSense is a security platform that cannot afford to use unstable code hence it's built on tried and tested FreeBSD 8.1 (8.3 for 2.1 snapshots).Steve
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so would this chip work ?? http://www.ebay.com/itm/JJPLUS-MR2-Atheros-AR9220-802-11N-BG-1000mW-Minipci-/110740291506?pt=DE_Computing_Notebook_Porterweiterungskarte&hash=item19c8a2bfb2
i dont understand the 1000mw idk if we can use that in the USA
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The AR9220 which that card uses does seem to be supported by the ath(4) driver. See:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ath_hal&sektion=4&apropos=0&manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE
However that's from FreeBSD 9.1 and pfSense 2.1beta is built on 8.3. But I believe the driver may have been back-ported, try searching the 2.1 subforum.
Even so you will only see 'G' speeds because not all the required components are there:
@https://wiki.freebsd.org/WiFi80211n:The following 802.11n features would be nice in the short term:
802.11n rate control/selection in net80211 - currently, the rate control modules in net80211 only know about legacy rates
That is from Sep. 2012 so things may have advanced since then.
Steve
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I know this may not help but it does see the wifi card is there
none4@pci0:4:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x40628086 chip=0x08878086 rev=0xc4 hdr=0x00
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Unfortunately you're right, it doesn't help. ;)
The fact that is is assigned as 'none' means that no driver has attached to it.Steve
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I know this may not help but it does see the wifi card is there
none4@pci0:4:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x40628086 chip=0x08878086 rev=0xc4 hdr=0x00
class = networkThe 8086 code in the chip field indicates its an Intel chip. But you were inquiring about an Atheros chip. The Linux PCI IDs file says that is a Centrino Wireless-N 2230 chip. No driver attached strongly indicates there is no supported driver for it.
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I assumed this is the card first asked about, in the first post.
Steve
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I know this may not help but it does see the wifi card is there
none4@pci0:4:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x40628086 chip=0x08878086 rev=0xc4 hdr=0x00
class = networkThe 8086 code in the chip field indicates its an Intel chip. But you were inquiring about an Atheros chip. The Linux PCI IDs file says that is a Centrino Wireless-N 2230 chip. No driver attached strongly indicates there is no supported driver for it.
yes it was the first chip i talked about an i was wanting to replace it with the Atheros Chip but i dont know about the 1,000mw
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You are unsure if 1000mW is legal in the US?
You can always use a very bad antenna! The legality of the rig is the combination of the output power and the antenna gain. You can still be over the limit even with a low power card if the antenna has sufficient dB gain.
The driver has a setting to limit the output power anyway so you could just turn it down.Steve
