On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 01:38:30AM +0000, 0x1eef wrote: > The only feature not working out of the box was wifi. But you > can buy a USB dongle to compensate for that.
Laptops with built-in Intel wifi will give you 11ac with up to 300 (three hundred) Mbit/s. Any of AX200/AX201/AX210/AX211 will do. Suspend/resume works, and seamless roaming between APs is supported. All supported USB dongles will only work in 11a/b/g modes due to driver limitations. In practice I would expect throughput to max out at around 10 (ten) Mbit/s, often much less. USB devices need to be reconfigured after suspend/resume either manually or via hotdplugd. None of the USB drivers support roaming between APs. So if you walk out of range or the AP drops off the air you need to down/up the interface yourself. There's also broadcom 11ac for specific devices used on some arm64 platforms. It is less common on x86 than the Intel ones. Hopefully more chipsets will get 11ac support later. But for now if you can get built-in Intel or (supported) Broadcom then that's the obvious choice if you are buying a laptop today and want to use wifi on OpenBSD.
