On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 04:33:55PM -0500, Carson Chittom wrote: > I have an old Macbook2,1 (dmesg below) that I've slapped OpenBSD on for > purposes of just having something to check my email from. Its wireless > card is picked up during the install as athn(4), the firmware was > installed on first boot, and /etc/hostname.athn0 is configured with my > local wireless network's details. But when I boot the laptop, all I get > is "athn0......no link" Though msk(4) of course works fine, so I used a > wired connection to update to -stable, to see if that would fix things; > it didn't. > > I searched the archives for every combination of macbook, athn, and > wireless I could think of, but I didn't see anything directly related > (mostly I came up with stuff about weirdness with the intel driver under > X, which I also see on this Macbook but don't care about since a console > is sufficient to run Emacs and check my email). > > Am I doing something wrong? Should I upgrade to a snapshot? Any advice > welcome--I'd like for this laptop not to be tethered to a cable. >
Do you get any device timeouts? I just got a athn card on ebay whose MAC address says it came from Apple, and that is all I get on an old(-ish) Asus L3S and on a Soekris net4801. Incidentally, the card turns out to be a bit of a current hog. The net4801 doesn't even complete POST with a 9.9VA power source (which it does without the card), but booted fine with 12VA. --
