On Thursday, July 07, 2011 11:53 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
Lamar Owen wrote:
The Apple Airport in an Intel Mac is Broadcom; many Intel Dell's have the option of Broadcom, which is typically less expensive than the 3945 or similar Intel wireless chipset. My Dell Inspiron 640m came with a Broadcom card; my Precision M65 had an Intel 3945 but has a Broadcom now (for other various reasons that are beyond the scope of the CentOS list).
The one AMD laptop I had that had PCIe wifi had an Atheros chipset..... but YMMV.
Intel, Broadcom, Ralink and Realtek chips are mostly used only for Laptops. Any decent (professional) Wireless router will have Atheros based radio. And the are excellent Atheros open source drivers.
Professional Wireless Router? That knocked me off my seat :-D. 'Wireless router' has become associated in my mind with that device you put in homes. So what professional wireless routers are out there? I have Aerohive 340 access points over here (uses Atheros btw) but I cannot seem to remember whether it supported routing but it does support tying profiles to vlans and a host of other stuff.
From manufacturers, Winstron and Compex are most respected. This is from 7 years of professional experience.
Let's see if we win the obscure wireless product awards ;)