Questions about a wireless card

beyer

Hi,

I am looking to by a mini-pcie wireless card for my pfsense box (2.0).
On ebay i found this card:
http://cgi.ebay.de/Atheros-5418-AR5BXB72-AR5008-Wifi-Mini-PCI-802-11ABGN-/140390207230?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item20afe88efe

My questions are:
1. will it work with g mode?
2. is there any indication it will work with n mode once it lands in freebsd?
3. will it work with 5ghz frequencies?

Thanks,
Marcus

Cry Havok

1. Yes
2. Yes
3. Yes

Look at the card description - 802.11ABGN. That lists the 4 modes it supports, and the fact that it supports 802.11A says that it supports 5 GHz.

Just be aware that they are described as single band radios, meaning you can either use 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz but not at the same time.

beyer

@Cry:

Just be aware that they are described as single band radios, meaning you can either use 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz but not at the same time.

That would indeed be quite an annoyance.
I found this card here which seems to do dual band, can you tell me if it is supported in pfsense/freebsd?
http://cgi.ebay.de/Atheros-Half-ar9280-wireless-wifi-n-card-300m-Dual-Band-/130453129585?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1e5f9cc971#ht_2834wt_907

Thanks a lot,
Marcus

Cry Havok

A quick bit of Googling for ar9820 FreeBSD suggests that it's supported in FreeBSD 8.0. If so it should work on pfSense 2.0.

Efonnes

If you want to use 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz at the same time, you will need two cards. As far as I know, access points that use both at the same time actually use two separate devices internally, one for each frequency.