On 2/23/07, A.M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>

> and sometimes "MIMO". Where are you finding cards that only support
> "a"? All the Atheros cards I have support "a" and "bg".

Here is one: http://tinyurl.com/3y5ztg
this is a/b

http://tinyurl.com/364n3y
Here is one that is a only

Here is an 802.11a access point
http://tinyurl.com/2vq553

Agent M and Robert:

 The chief difficulty I am running into is that many of the available
802.11a/g WiFi cards use a Texas Instruments chipset. This chipset is
not supported in OpenBSD. From the man page:

 acx - TI ACX100/ACX111 IEEE 802.11a/b/g wireless network device

....

FILES
     The driver needs a set of firmware files which are loaded when an inter-
     face is brought up:

           /etc/firmware/tiacx100
           /etc/firmware/tiacx100r0D
           /etc/firmware/tiacx100r11
           /etc/firmware/tiacx111
           /etc/firmware/tiacx111c16
           /etc/firmware/tiacx111r16

     These firmware files are not free because TI refuses to grant
distribution rights.  In fact they have rebuffed thousands of attempts
to start a dialogue on this issue.  As a result, even though OpenBSD
includes the driver, the firmware files cannot be included and users
have to download these files on their own.
....

This acx driver includes many of the 802.11g cards. For instance the
Linksys WPC54Gv2, which is in many stores, uses this acx device.
 
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