Re: update of free wireless cards?
"Vim Visual" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ops, sorry, I was meaning internal devices! I am looking for an > internal wireless card. the ordinary PCI bus versions are about the same price or slightly cheaper. - P -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ 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.
Re: update of free wireless cards?
Hi Peter, I have both ral and rum devices here, and we're quite happy with them. In my experience at least they are quite reliable. They are rather inexpensive too, the USB versions can can usually be had for 50 euros or less, mini-PCIs even less. Ops, sorry, I was meaning internal devices! I am looking for an internal wireless card. Since you mention Intel parts, wpi in my Thinkpad R60 has a tendency to almost, but not quite, resetting it self at apparently random intervals, losing the link. Nothing that can't be handled with a new ifconfig up mumble plus dhclient mumble, and the recent revisions in -current is noticeably better, but still a bit irritating. yes, I also have observed this behaviour in some machines... it's indeed irritating! I was at the point of considering some minor surgery on the Thinkpad to put a rum mini-pci in there instead, but the Damien Bergamini did some magic which made the wpi behave a little better. iwi is not that lucky, I think... but I should shut up because I have not check it in detail Thanks for your comments Pau
Re: update of free wireless cards?
"Vim Visual" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And another question: How do these devices compare to the intel pro > ones? Are they as powerful? I have both ral and rum devices here, and we're quite happy with them. In my experience at least they are quite reliable. They are rather inexpensive too, the USB versions can can usually be had for 50 euros or less, mini-PCIs even less. Since you mention Intel parts, wpi in my Thinkpad R60 has a tendency to almost, but not quite, resetting it self at apparently random intervals, losing the link. Nothing that can't be handled with a new ifconfig up mumble plus dhclient mumble, and the recent revisions in -current is noticeably better, but still a bit irritating. I was at the point of considering some minor surgery on the Thinkpad to put a rum mini-pci in there instead, but the Damien Bergamini did some magic which made the wpi behave a little better. - P -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ 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.
update of free wireless cards?
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...
