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Old 03-16-2006, 10:14 AM   #1
ryko
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which wireless usb ethernet adapter for *BSD


Hi,

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
 
Old 03-27-2006, 11:26 AM   #2
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for FreeBSD
ww.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/hardware-i386.html

thats the hardware notes for the latest release

for OpenBSD
ww.openbsd.org/i386.html#hardware

thats the 3.8 release

and NetBSD
ww.netbsd.org/Ports/i386/hardware.html

hope that helps!!

(sorry had to cut some of the address off, i can't post url's yet )
 
Old 03-27-2006, 02:10 PM   #3
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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.

Atheros chipsets are well supported in FreeBSD

http://linux-wless.passys.nl/query_h...CI&zoek=hostif
 
Old 03-27-2006, 05:51 PM   #4
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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:

* AMIT WL532U
* Asus WL-167g
* Belkin WUAG 7050 V2000
* Buffalo WLI-U2-KG54-AI
* CNet CWD-854
* Compex WLU54G
* Conceptronic C54RU
* D-Link DWL-G122 b1
* Dynalink WLG25USB
* E-Tech WGUS02
* Gigabyte GN-WBKG
* Hercules HWGUSB2-54
* KCORP LifeStyle KLS-685
* Linksys WUSB54G v4 / WUSB54GP v4
* MSI MS-6861 / MS-6865 / MS-6869
* Repotech RP-WU0402
* SerComm UB801R
* SparkLAN WL-685R
* Tonze UW-6200C
* EP-9001-g
* ZWX-G261

Hope that helped some

Henke
 
Old 03-28-2006, 06:51 AM   #5
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Hi.
It seems that ural has been ported to netbsd 3.0
Just another question, where did you get that support list on the ural driver ?
TIA.


Greetz.
 
Old 03-30-2006, 05:41 PM   #6
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here is a fuller list
http://ralink.rapla.net/

*bsd site: http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/ral/
ural-linux: http://etudiants.insia.org/~jbobbio/ural-linux/

here is where I got my list from: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?q...SD+6.0-RELEASE

hope that helped
 
Old 04-16-2006, 07:42 PM   #7
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ASUS WL-167g NIC - don't bother

I've had many problems with trying to install this "easy to install" software to get the ASUS WL-167g NIC running.

Has anyone had any success on FC5 or Red Hat 9? ASUS have washed their hands of support suggesting I change the source code to fit the OS.
 
  


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