Re: wireless ethernet adapters (seeking recommendations)

2007-04-13 Thread pedro la peu
On Thursday 12 April 2007 18:28, Niall O'Higgins wrote: Interesting, I have always found the radio in ural(4) (and rum(4) which is next-generation chip) to be excellent. Much better than ral(4) and even wi(4) in my experience. Better than Senao/Engenius wi(4)?

Re: wireless ethernet adapters (seeking recommendations)

2007-04-12 Thread Wijnand Wiersma
2007/4/12, Darrin Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 02:18:28AM +0200, Maxime DERCHE wrote: A recent thread (04/04/2007) on this list showed that the ralink chipsets are well supported by OpenBSD. If I recall, there was also talk about lower signal strength with ralink. For

Re: wireless ethernet adapters (seeking recommendations)

2007-04-12 Thread Claudio Jeker
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 02:15:45AM +0100, pedro la peu wrote: The usual recommendation is ral(4) Or acx(4), ath(4), rtw(4), rum(4), wi(4). rtw(4) seems to have some issues with hostap. At least it did not send out beacons. jsg@ may know more (I don't have such a card to play). I'm a big

Re: wireless ethernet adapters (seeking recommendations)

2007-04-12 Thread Niall O'Higgins
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 09:37:31AM +0200, Wijnand Wiersma wrote: 2007/4/12, Darrin Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 02:18:28AM +0200, Maxime DERCHE wrote: A recent thread (04/04/2007) on this list showed that the ralink chipsets are well supported by OpenBSD. If I

Re: wireless ethernet adapters (seeking recommendations)

2007-04-11 Thread Nick !
On 4/11/07, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking to build on OpenBSD 4.0 (4.1?) a wireless access point for a small network. I would like to hear what cards have proven to be the most effective in this arena. I am very interested in small form factor machines with possible onboard

Re: wireless ethernet adapters (seeking recommendations)

2007-04-11 Thread Maxime DERCHE
A recent thread (04/04/2007) on this list showed that the ralink chipsets are well supported by OpenBSD. I think any wireless card with a ralink chipset will do the job. See http://openbsd.org/i386.html#hardware (Wireless Ethernet Adapters) if you need more information. Maxime Peter wrote: I'm

Re: wireless ethernet adapters (seeking recommendations)

2007-04-11 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 02:18:28AM +0200, Maxime DERCHE wrote: A recent thread (04/04/2007) on this list showed that the ralink chipsets are well supported by OpenBSD. If I recall, there was also talk about lower signal strength with ralink. For an access point this is important, but could be

Re: wireless ethernet adapters (seeking recommendations)

2007-04-11 Thread pedro la peu
The usual recommendation is ral(4) Or acx(4), ath(4), rtw(4), rum(4), wi(4).

Re: wireless ethernet adapters (seeking recommendations)

2007-04-11 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
My advice would be ral(4) I have also used ath(4) however the G mode does not work real well, I would suspect that ral(4) would be one of the first devices to support 80.211n. in OpenBSD (Someone correct me if I am wrong on this) Sam Fourman Jr. On 4/11/07, Darrin Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: wireless ethernet adapters (seeking recommendations)

2007-04-11 Thread bofh
- Original message - Or acx(4), ath(4), rtw(4), rum(4), wi(4). I thought we shouldn't support ath? On 4/11/07, pedro la peu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The usual recommendation is ral(4) Or acx(4), ath(4), rtw(4), rum(4), wi(4).