Re: 3.0 wireless PCI cards

[jolan <jolan@encryptedemail.net>]

This is why you read the supported hardware list:

http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html (3/4ths of the way down is
				  Wireless Ethernet Adapters)

That way you're not randomly buying and trying hardware that's
never going to work.


As for finding a retailer in the bay area... Asking on an
international mailing list isn't going to yield much result.

Perhaps a phonebook is in order.

-jolan


On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Nick Kocharhook wrote:

> I'm looking to set up an OBSD 3.0 machine as a wireless router.
> Unfortunately, I have been unable to find cards that work.
>
> I bought a D-Link DWL-520, a Linksys WMP11 and a US Robotics "Wireless
> Access PCI Adapter Model No. 2415".
>
> OBSD didn't recognize any of these cards on startup. Only the US
> Robotics card is a PCI bridge, the other two are all-in-one cards. I
> didn't necessarily expect them to work, as I had heard only about
> bridges on this list and in every other place I looked online. But
> apparently, Fry's has stopped selling ISA/PCI->PCMCIA bridges.
>
> So I guess my question is twofold. One, is there anything I can do to
> get these PCI cards to be recognized by OBSD? If not, where can I find
> wireless cards that OBSD *will* like in the Bay Area? (Fry's doesn't
> sell Lucent/Orinoco/Agere cards or Cisco cards. And, like I said, they
> don't sell adapters either. Except the USR one. Which doesn't work.)
>
> And yes, I have seen them online. But I'd really like to get this
> handled right away. And I don't want to have to deal with shipping if I
> need to return the item.
>
> TIA!
>
> --
> Nic