Brad Tilley <b...@16systems.com> writes: > their OpenBSD Laptop can do 802.11? Are there some percentage rules we > can provide? Such as ... "80% of Linksys and 70% of Dlink stuff works. > Don't touch XYZ adapters"... Again, keeping it simple and in layman > terms. Any suggestion outside of RTFM ;) is much appreciated.
The basic truism is that if you don't do the homework, you put your money on the luck of the draw. Lots of stuff will 'just work' even if it's not explicitly listed, but you never know until you try. My personal success rate has been pretty good, but then I have tended to do at least some homework and besides my sample size is too small to be statistically significant. The best advice, I think, is to check the relevant pages on the OpenBSD web before you shop, if possible either your OpenBSD laptop to the store or borrow a machine to look up on the web or try booting from an OpenBSD CD while you're in the store. When you're shopping around for hardware to use with OpenBSD, it's important to let the shop clerks know what you're doing and if possible make them agree to return any unit you can not make to work. And equally important but easy to forget: tell them when it works too. We're still at a stage when every time we mention OpenBSD it's news to somebody. - P -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
