Re: Want to buy Notebooks with supported WLAN chip - Recommendations?

2016-08-07 Thread Alexander Nasonov
co...@sdf.org wrote: > But until that, I used USB wifi. the dongle is small enough to not get > in the way, I don't even have to disconnect it to put ti in a backpack. If you use edimax, it will eventually break. My two edimax dongles broke in the same way. They aren't sturdy enough to survive in

Re: Want to buy Notebooks with supported WLAN chip - Recommendations?

2016-08-07 Thread Frank Wille
co...@sdf.org wrote: > On Sun, Aug 07, 2016 at 07:53:44AM +0930, Brett Lymn wrote: >> [...] >> One thing which may be acceptable (and, in fact, I have been doing for >> a while*) is to get a supported USB wireless dongle and use that. It >> is not ideal but you will get wireless network. Ok,

Re: Want to buy Notebooks with supported WLAN chip - Recommendations?

2016-08-06 Thread coypu
On Sun, Aug 07, 2016 at 07:53:44AM +0930, Brett Lymn wrote: > On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 10:24:13AM +0200, Frank Wille wrote: > > > > I'm looking for a recent Notebook which runs NetBSD. In spent a lot of time > > to find out which drivers are needed for several models, and in nearly all > > cases

Re: Want to buy Notebooks with supported WLAN chip - Recommendations?

2016-08-06 Thread Brett Lymn
On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 10:24:13AM +0200, Frank Wille wrote: > > I'm looking for a recent Notebook which runs NetBSD. In spent a lot of time > to find out which drivers are needed for several models, and in nearly all > cases the WLAN chip is not supported. > > Looking into the NetBSD-current

Want to buy Notebooks with supported WLAN chip - Recommendations?

2016-08-02 Thread Frank Wille
Hi, I'm looking for a recent Notebook which runs NetBSD. In spent a lot of time to find out which drivers are needed for several models, and in nearly all cases the WLAN chip is not supported. Looking into the NetBSD-current source I hope that the new intel AC 3160 driver is partly working.