Re: Wireless USB Adaptor

2009-08-26 Thread matteo filippetto
2009/8/26 Andres Genovez andresgeno...@gmail.com: www.crice.org 2009/8/25 Daniel Bolgheroni m...@dbolgheroni.eng.br On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Brad Tilley wrote: Hey guys, I'm looking for some generic advice to give folks who cannot or willnot verify what chipset a wireless usb adapter is

Re: Wireless USB Adaptor

2009-08-26 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Brad Tilley b...@16systems.com writes: their OpenBSD Laptop can do 802.11? Are there some percentage rules we can provide? Such as ... 80% of Linksys and 70% of Dlink stuff works. Don't touch XYZ adapters... Again, keeping it simple and in layman terms. Any suggestion outside of RTFM ;) is

Re: Wireless USB Adaptor

2009-08-26 Thread Daniel Bolgheroni
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Brad Tilley wrote: Maybe it's worth to see this presentation: http://www.openbsd.org/papers/brhard2007/ I definitely agree with OpenBSD's uncompromising stance on this. I'll take quality code from sensible devs over binary blobs any day. I admire folks who stand-up

Re: Wireless USB Adaptor

2009-08-25 Thread Theo de Raadt
I'm looking for some generic advice to give folks who cannot or willnot verify what chipset a wireless usb adapter is using before purchase. What do you guys say to people who do not want to use apropos wireless or man ath To them, I say boo hoo. Actually, I delete their mail. You should

Re: Wireless USB Adaptor

2009-08-25 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2009-08-25, Brad Tilley b...@16systems.com wrote: I'm looking for some generic advice to give folks who cannot or willnot verify what chipset a wireless usb adapter is using before purchase. What do you guys say to people who do not want to use apropos wireless or man ath, but at the same

Re: Wireless USB Adaptor

2009-08-25 Thread Bryan Irvine
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Brad Tilleyb...@16systems.com wrote: Hey guys, I'm looking for some generic advice to give folks who cannot or willnot verify what chipset a wireless usb adapter is using before purchase. What do you guys say to people who do not want to use apropos wireless

Re: Wireless USB Adaptor

2009-08-25 Thread Andres Genovez
2009/8/25 Brad Tilley b...@16systems.com Hey guys, I'm looking for some generic advice to give folks who cannot or willnot verify what chipset a wireless usb adapter is using before purchase. What do you guys say to people who do not want to use apropos wireless or man ath, but at the same

Re: Wireless USB Adaptor

2009-08-25 Thread Chris Bennett
Brad Tilley wrote: Hey guys, I'm looking for some generic advice to give folks who cannot or willnot verify what chipset a wireless usb adapter is using before purchase. What do you guys say to people who do not want to use apropos wireless or man ath, but at the same time want to just walk

Re: Wireless USB Adaptor

2009-08-25 Thread Daniel Bolgheroni
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Brad Tilley wrote: Hey guys, I'm looking for some generic advice to give folks who cannot or willnot verify what chipset a wireless usb adapter is using before purchase. What do you guys say to people who do not want to use apropos wireless or man ath, but at the same

Re: Wireless USB Adaptor

2009-08-25 Thread Brad Tilley
Maybe it's worth to see this presentation: http://www.openbsd.org/papers/brhard2007/ I definitely agree with OpenBSD's uncompromising stance on this. I'll take quality code from sensible devs over binary blobs any day. I admire folks who stand-up for what is right. That's one reason I choose

Re: Wireless USB Adaptor

2009-08-25 Thread bofh
Brad, I've been burnt by buying what I thought was safe wireless cards (you can see me asking for help in the archives). OEMs change chipsets without even updating version information in some cases. Best advice is to buy something taiwanese based, based on the presentation link given On 8/25/09,

Re: Wireless USB Adaptor

2009-08-25 Thread Andres Genovez
www.crice.org 2009/8/25 Daniel Bolgheroni m...@dbolgheroni.eng.br On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Brad Tilley wrote: Hey guys, I'm looking for some generic advice to give folks who cannot or willnot verify what chipset a wireless usb adapter is using before purchase. What do you guys say to