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I plan to buy an usb wireless ethernet adapter (802.11g able) for use with netbsd and openbsd (and windows98 and more).
Can you, please, recommend me a model or a hardware compatibility list ?
TIA
It is hard for anybody to recommend a card because almost all of the companies will change chipsets while retaining the same model number. ie D-Link DWL-G510 V1 is a different chipset that a D-Link DWL-510 V2. It is the chipset that is important.
well I use this one at the current moment and it works great with the Ural driver (for ralink RT2500 chipsets) in FreeBSD (the driver also exists for OpenBSD, not sure about NetBSD)
linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?c=L_Product_C2&childpagename=US%2FLayout&cid=1115416827517&pagename=Linksys%2FCommon%2FVis itorWrapper
WUSB54G v4 The version on cards is often very important as shepper said, as I know that the previous versions of this card are not supported bc/ of different chipsets.
It works nice, and I know several otehrs that have gotten it to work in linux using ndiswrapper as well as teh linux-ural driver. Here is the complete list of usb network adapters taht work using the ural driver:
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