On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 05:35:08PM +0000, Jason George wrote: > >Greetings, > > > >I am considering purchasing an MSI PC54G2 PCI wireless adapter for a > >Pentium III machine which will run OBSD 3.7 . > > > >I note ral(4) states: > > > >"PCI ral adapters seem to strictly require a system supporting PCI 2.2 > >or greater and will likely not work in systems based on older > >revisions of the PCI specification." > > > >I'm unsure how to determine what version of the PCI specification this > >machine supports, and would welcome any advice. Its dmesg is as > >follows: > > > >OpenBSD 3.7 (RAMDISK_CD) #573: Sun Mar 20 00:27:05 MST 2005 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/RAMDISK_CD > >cpu0: Intel Pentium III ("GenuineIntel" 686-class, 512KB L2 cache) 498 MHz > >cpu0: > >FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE > >real mem = 200785920 (196080K) > >avail mem = 177430528 (173272K) > >using 2476 buffers containing 10141696 bytes (9904K) of memory > >mainbus0 (root) > >bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(00) BIOS, date 11/10/99, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfd7e1 > >apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2 > >pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xf0000/0x10000 > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > Version 2.1
PCI 2.2 systems will say this also, it is not a means of checking.