On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 04:17:42AM +0000, Christian Koch wrote: > > > What is the best way to ascertain what would work on NetBSD before buying > > one? > > If you're lucky, some man page in chapter 4 will provide a list of what works. > Otherwise, well, can't know for sure. >
Some of the wireless driver man pages list known-to-work devices, try "man urtwn" for example. I research this by doing a google search for the model number and the term "product id" one of the returns should give you the usb id for the device, then you can trawl /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/usbdevs to see if the id is known, then grep the drivers for the id symbol to see if there is a match. This should be pretty accurate for a usb network device for other usb devices they may be matched on a device class (things like usb serial devices) so you cannot always rely on doing this. -- Brett Lymn
