Re: Sick of crappy wireless, suggestions?


"Knute Johnson" <knute@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
I have bcm4318. I've got wireless working with windoze driver, but it's
very unreliable. I've had enough. Can anyone suggest an add-on card for
my laptop that will work well with FC6, natively?

I'm not being a pain here but I've asked this question several times
on this list and have never gotten a good answer. I would really
like to get WPA working on my laptop.

I have a worthless bcm4318 also (bcm4319 actually, which is even worse
in terms of how much futzing one has to do to get it to even work
unreliably.)

What I did was get a slightly overspec-ed cardbus card with an atheros
chipset and a small external magnetic antenna that I stick to the top
of the LCD. The RX and TX signals are great compared to the BCM. I
now have no more problems getting a signal from outside the house.
Even esoteric things like ipv6 work (unlike the ndiswrapper bcm
solution which only worked for ipv4, and badly at that).

The card:

http://www.ubnt.com/super_range_cardbus.php4

I can't find a better site right now, I think I only paid $10 or so.
It is a 3cm magnetic base and 16cm tall with a few meters of cable
terminated in an mmcx connector.

http://www.radiolabs.com/products/antennas/2.4gig/2.4-mobile3.php

The price on the card and antenna vary wildly, so if you shop around
you can save quite a bit.

I've been extremely happy with the combination and how solid the "ath"
drivers are.

-wolfgang
--
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/

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