On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 03:55:06PM +0200, Peter Philipp wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just bought a Wifi USB stick and it doesn't seem to work on OpenBSD.  
> Instead
> of returning it (39 euros) I'm willing to send this to an OpenBSD developer 
> who
> wants to make a driver work for this.  Not sure how non-blob friendly the 
> maker
> of this hardware is...
> 
> Maker: Fritz! WLAN, AVM
> Model: Fritz!WLAN USB Stick, 802.11g++, 125 Mbit/s, WPA2 (802.11i)

This sounds like a Texas Instruments TNETW1450, the marketing for
which talks of both 125Mbit rates and "g++".  How nice of them
to try to tie the name for their additional non standard crap to something
standardised.  When you talk to an access point things are going to
run at 54Mbps unless you have an accompanying cheap and nasty access
point by TI that imlpements the same vendor specific nonsense.

http://focus.ti.com/general/docs/bcg/bcgprodcontent.tsp?templateId=6116&navigationId=12471&contentId=4043
http://focus.ti.com/pdfs/bcg/tnetw1450_prod_bulletin.pdf

TI don't release documentation, and don't respond to requests to
allow their firmware to be redistributed.

The upshot of all this is that people can avoid products that incorporate
a TI chipset by not buying any so called "g++" or "125 Mbps" gear.

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