Hi, I am about to but a second hand thinkpad x40 which looks pretty good _and_ has APM support (!!). Of course OpenBSD will be installed on it.
Now, the German ebayer is a nice person and I can actually choose what's going to be the wireless card! Until now I have only tried intel chips, so that you have to install the firmware and everything is working fine. But if I can choose, I'd like to have a 100% blob-less system. And also to show the vendors that they have a public! I have been googling, clustying and reading man pages to find a recent update of the list of wireless cards which would fulfill this and I have found out that the wireless devices that either do not require firmware, or that have runtime firmware that OpenBSD is allowed to distribute are: * atu (4) - Atmel AT76C50x USB IEEE 802.11b wireless network device * ral (4) - Ralink Technology IEEE 802.11a/b/g wireless network device (2nd gen 802.11 Ralink) * rum (4) - Ralink Technology USB IEEE 802.11a/b/g wireless network device * zyd (4) - Zydas ZD1211 USB IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network device Is this the whole list of "blob-less" devices? And another question: How do these devices compare to the intel pro ones? Are they as powerful? Thanks for your attention...
