Created attachment 175811 [details] patch Added a section listing the WiFi USB and Mini PCIe devices that are known to work well. A lot of devices are listed in the driver man pages, but as I found many of them have issues. This list has value since it can direct people who need to buy a WIFi card in the right direction, and save them an aggravation of buying a card that doesn't actually work. The list is incomplete, of course. It can be added to later.
Although I personally use Ralink and Realtek and know they work OK, I'm nervous about putting this in. I've used many different WiFi cards, and I have to say I've always been impressed with FreeBSD's support of them, especially when first moving from Linux and ndiswrapper. I think putting such a list in implies that our wifi support is flaky, and I really don't think it is! Apart from anything else, the major work by the WiFi people has appeared to be in the ath driver, which I have also used and found good. Have you had issues with any cards?
(In reply to Chris Rees from comment #1) > Have you had issues with any cards? All the time. run0 device timeouts: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=233226 ru0 also often fails to connect . rtwn0 device also often fails to connect.
(In reply to Yuri Victorovich from comment #2) * typo: run0 also often fails to connect .
ath0 time to time logs bb hang detected, but works ok regardless.
(In reply to Vitalio from comment #4) What is the cheapest WiFi device that one can find?
(In reply to Yuri Victorovich from comment #5) Pigeons ?
Perhaps actually the Wireless guys might be the ones to ask?
(In reply to Vitalio from comment #6) Indeed! https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2549
I'm gonna take this, I think this will be a good addition to the new network chapter.