On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 06:37:32PM +0100, Zé Loff wrote: > On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 04:33:55PM -0500, Carson Chittom wrote: > > I have an old Macbook2,1 (dmesg below) that I've slapped OpenBSD on for > > purposes of just having something to check my email from. Its wireless > > card is picked up during the install as athn(4), the firmware was > > installed on first boot, and /etc/hostname.athn0 is configured with my > > local wireless network's details. But when I boot the laptop, all I get > > is "athn0......no link" Though msk(4) of course works fine, so I used a > > wired connection to update to -stable, to see if that would fix things; > > it didn't. > > > > I searched the archives for every combination of macbook, athn, and > > wireless I could think of, but I didn't see anything directly related > > (mostly I came up with stuff about weirdness with the intel driver under > > X, which I also see on this Macbook but don't care about since a console > > is sufficient to run Emacs and check my email). > > > > Am I doing something wrong? Should I upgrade to a snapshot? Any advice > > welcome--I'd like for this laptop not to be tethered to a cable. > > > > Do you get any device timeouts? I just got a athn card on ebay whose MAC > address says it came from Apple, and that is all I get on an old(-ish) > Asus L3S and on a Soekris net4801. > > Incidentally, the card turns out to be a bit of a current hog. The > net4801 doesn't even complete POST with a 9.9VA power source (which it > does without the card), but booted fine with 12VA.
Strike that. Sunny weather brought a nice active link (on the Soekris). Go figure.
