Re: Wireless N availability and Atheros availability

[Stuart Henderson]

On 2012-03-10, leona...@sympatico.ca leona...@sympatico.ca wrote:
 1) I can now run wireless N on phones and tablets, and my laptop when  in
 Windows, but not when in OpenBSD.
  I understand that there is a lot of work to make this available in
 openbsd, but is there a rough time line?

No.

 AR9001-3NX2 (AR9160+AR9106)2GHz/5GHz3x3:2PCI

 Is this available in minpci for a laptop? If so which manufacturers make them?

I think mikrotik might do, watch out for laptop bios blacklists though.

Wireless N availability and Atheros availability

[leonardz]

1) I can now run wireless N on phones and tablets, and my laptop when  in
Windows, but not when in OpenBSD.
 I understand that there is a lot of work to make this available in
openbsd, but is there a rough time line? I am running 5.1current , i386. The
card built in is the  Intel WiFi Link 5100 minpci card.
Is this likely to be available in 5.2, 5.3 ???

2) The Intel card is okay, but I am told the Atheros chipset is better
supported under OpenBSD. The chipset that looks most interesting is:

AR9001-3NX2 (AR9160+AR9106)2GHz/5GHz3x3:2PCI

Is this available in minpci for a laptop? If so which manufacturers make them?
I cannot seem to find a source for them

Thanks.


Len Zaifman