On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:52 -0800, "James Hozier" <guitars...@yahoo.com> wrote: > With every single laptop I've bought/been given over the years, I > was able to run OpenBSD on them almost flawlessly save a few > quick/simple hacks to make anything that didn't work, work. > > The one main issue I've had with ALL of them was the wireless > card...maybe I was just unlucky to have gotten ones with crappy > chipsets
Purchase a few 802.11 USB sticks. You can find devices that have very well-documented chipsets on newegg for less than 15 dollars (USD). These devices are 100% supported in OpenBSD. The man pages list these devices and are very accurate. For example, man run and see the HARDWARE section. You might also consider installing OpenBSD -current to a USB stick and try booting the laptop from that before purchasing. That way, you'd know exactly what hardware you were getting. Brad [snip]
