On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 10:51:36AM -0500, Shawn K. Quinn wrote: > Just a heads-up for anyone in the market for OpenBSD-compatible USB > wireless adapters: > > A friend of mine recently bought a Trendnet TEW-429UB which according to > the zyd manpage has the ZyDAS chipset. (Technically, he bought it for a > laptop running a GNU+Linux system but my advice has been to buy wireless > hardware that will work with OpenBSD because of the project's commitment > to software freedom, but the issue still applies equally.) > > Well, some clown changed the wireless chipset in that adapter without > changing the model number. What is there now is some Realtek wireless > chipset (the rtw driver doesn't support anything USB so I doubt it's an > 8180, I think I remember seeing a reference to 8198 somewhere).
The USB Realtek one is an 8187 and is not supported indeed. The windows drivers for versions A,B1,C1 & C2 all show either zd1211 or zd1211b. The trendnet site does not currently list any other versions, which version does your friend have?
