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    wireless N cards

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by clusty1, Nov 18, 2007.

  1. clusty1

    clusty1 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hey,

    Looking at the current internal laptop wireless N cards and was curious about your opinion. The choice is between

    intel 4965
    atheros ar5007
    broadcom N

    I am leaning towards the atheros as they always had native linux open source support. Anyone have any good/bad experiences with any of them?

    Also my notebook is a sony SZ420, it has a miniPCI-e port. Anything else I should consider regarding the compatibility?
     
    clusty1, Nov 18, 2007
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    tebore Notebook Evangelist

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    Broadcom is the worst. All of their network cards have terrible driver support. Most of the time they just drop support. Many HP Laptops out there with older broadcom cards won't support WPA2 because of lack of driver support.
     
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    clusty1 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I am leaning towards the atheros since they always have open source support and they support one of best packet injections :D. So far the linux kernel does not support atheros be default.

    Clusty
     
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    tebore Notebook Evangelist

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    I've always had good luck with atheros card. They are extra sensitive and usually have the best transmit power.
     
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    well, i have a 3945 and my sis's artheros wireless g works better, so id go with artheros
     
    aan310, Nov 18, 2007
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    def atheros no question asked imo
     
    zfactor, Nov 19, 2007
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    Search some of the fourms and see which one is having more problems and then go with the other. But I have had good luck with both in the past, I tend to lean towards the atheros but have had good luck with intel chipsets as well. But do some research as well and see which has the best support now.
     
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    clusty1 Notebook Enthusiast

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    The card I was looking at is labeled as Toshiba.
    Think it should be compatible with the standard chipset driver?

    Also the guy mentions that the card is not compatible with IBM/Dell notebooks but did not respond to my question as to why?
    Any idea why this might be?
    Space maybe?
     
    clusty1, Nov 19, 2007
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  9. zfactor

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    atheros is the manufacture of all their cards they simply get rebranded for whoever the reseller is.. some of the ibm lenovo's check to see if its a lenovo branded card but dell does not do this any longer as far as i know
     
    zfactor, Nov 19, 2007
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