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.

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