Hardware

It seems its not enough to see a wireless mini-pci card listed under FreeBSD 6.3 hardware-list (and then manage to find it in a store somewhere within your country), you also need to know what kind of antenna to mount on it (often dont say a thing on the card-spec, or on the antennas), and worse of all, you need to know if the card supports hostap-mode so it can act as an AP.

I've looked at a few cards, even some atheros-based ones, but none of them mention hostap...just ad-hoc and infrasturcure, but most common seem to be to just leave it out of the specifications totally.

M0n0wall has a nice page with a few to me unheard of cards that should work with hostap, but if you want a more current complete list from FreeBSD 6.3, then you cant see any comments there about hostap.
Maybe most people dont care about it?

Googling for mini-pci, AP, and m0n0wall gives almost no current info at all, mostly some several year old threads saying its not recommended to use M0n0 as a AP since its got so bad performance, but it might be better in the future.

Oh well, guess you cant have it all

The "solution" given to me is to look what driver the particular card uses over at FreeBSD-site, then look at the features of that driver.
In case someone else stumbles on this same question that is.