Almost one year ago I started to get WiFi working on my boxen.

Here is the sad wrap-up:
 - zyd was said to be supported, I read the respective page and bought a 
3COM10075
 - compilation as described on that page failed
 - needed to download close to 800MB of onnv-gate
 - compilation went through, but WPA was not supported
 - a lost cause, since WEP is of no use

 - rum was the latest addition, supports WPA (so says the rum page)
 - so I bought one, read the rum-page (very easy to setup, so it looks)
 - compiled, and it went through
 - alas, some arcane sequence needed to be added to driver_alisases, I did that
 - alas, it still didn't work. it doesn't, by default, with nwam, so I had to 
disable nwam.
 - it still would not work, and I was told that WPA would be supported soon
 - snv_105 would support the WAP access points, so I upgraded
 - it would not work, but crash the system

[By now both USB-dongles connect on OpenBSD, using WPA, perfectly well, out of 
the box. There essentially one person, a volunteer, has been doing the work]

A sad state of affairs, as far as my 2 sen carry me.
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