Dorian B|ttner wrote: > Mikael Bak schrieb: >> Hi list, >> >> Seems to me that this card isn't recognized at boot time (dmesg pasted >> at the end of this email). It's a PCMCIA card. Instead of a wifi >> device OpenBSD tries to allocate a serial port (com3). >> > Hi Mikael, > > some time ago I had a usb wlan adapter from avaya at hand > http://old.nabble.com/AVAYA-Wireless-USB-Client-%28Gold%29-td21817914.html > It turned out, then when opening the cover of the desk stand it was > nothing more than a pcmcia card attached to a usb adapter. Avaya used > also orinoco chips in their products, and it was back in times of > 802.11b and wep was believed/announced to be totally secure. > I suspect whether you have anything newer that would be worth > investigating? > > Regards, > Dorian > >
Hi Dorian, Yes, this is a very old card, and it does only 802.11b and can only do wep. I know it's not secure, I'd only use it at home for playing around with and learn OpenBSD. If OpenBSD has no driver for it then I use wired network. I just thought I'd ask in the list just in case. I have been using this wifi card successfully in FreeBSD, so I thought it might work in OpenBSD too. Anyway. If somebody on the list has made this card work in OpenBSD then I am all ears :-) TIA, Mikael
