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 ;)