On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 11:06:32AM -0500, Matt Brenneke wrote:
| On 6/21/05, Peter N. M. Hansteen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| > Matt Brenneke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| >
| > > pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xf0000/0xbf58
| >
| > That's your problem, right there. ral(4) needs PCI 2.2.
| >
| > Easy to miss, but it does say so in the man page, under CAVEATS.
| >
|
| I had read that actually, but I'm unsure what whether my motherboard
| supports 2.2 or really is only 2.1, since the thread from
| http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/openbsd/2005-03/2810.html <- that
post
|
| led me to believe that the pcibios version printed by OpenBSD doesn't
| always tell the truth.
It does tell the truth where it concerns the pcibios version that your
chipset claims to support. But, from what I understand, newer chipsets
may not be completely 2.2 compliant, but will have the required
features for ral(4) to work correctly.
I've had a ral running in several motherboards, only one did not work.
Too bad that particular board never worked again after trying, so I'm
reluctant to put PCI ral in other older motherboards.
| If the problem really is the pci version, can anyone recomend a good
| 802.11g card that works with PCI 2.1 and OpenBSD 3.7 and a place to
| buy it?
ral appears to work with the more recent chipsets that support PCI
2.1, everything from the Pentium 3-era and up I tested works. The
system that fried had a celeron 366 - I'm not sure the ral-card caused
the system to stop functioning, but that was all we changed at the
time.
Cheers,
Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd
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