hello all, This post is for informational purposes mostly, I bought 2 D-LINK Wireless N adapters
DLINK DWA-552 Ver 1 D-Link DWA-542 Ver 1 Both of these adapters are in my computer and have a Atheros chipset unsupported it looks like. if anyone is interested in random dmesg's My dmesg is as follows: Sam Fourman Jr. OpenBSD 4.0-current (GENERIC) #1198: Sat Nov 4 22:34:05 MST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC cpu0: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2800+ ("AuthenticAMD" 686-class, 512KB L2 cache) 2.09 GHz cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE real mem = 1073246208 (1048092K) avail mem = 970969088 (948212K) using 4256 buffers containing 53784576 bytes (52524K) of memory mainbus0 (root) bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(65) BIOS, date 02/09/04, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfbcf0, SMBIOS rev. 2.3 @ 0xf0800 (37 entries) bios0: HP Pavilion 061 DW230A-ABA a500n apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2 apm0: AC on, battery charge unknown apm0: flags 70102 dobusy 1 doidle 1 pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xf0000/0xdee4 pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @ 0xfde40/160 (8 entries) pcibios0: PCI Exclusive IRQs: 5 10 11 pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:17:0 ("VIA VT82C596A ISA" rev 0x00) pcibios0: PCI bus #1 is the last bus bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0xa800 0xcc000/0x8000! 0xd4000/0x1800 cpu0 at mainbus0 pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios) pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "VIA VT8378 PCI" rev 0x00 ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "VIA VT8377 AGP" rev 0x00 pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 100" rev 0xb2 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) vendor "Atheros", unknown product 0x0023 (class network subclass miscellaneous, rev 0x01) at pci0 dev 8 function 0 not configured vendor "Atheros", unknown product 0x0023 (class network subclass miscellaneous, rev 0x01) at pci0 dev 10 function 0 not configured pciide0 at pci0 dev 15 function 0 "VIA VT6420 SATA" rev 0x80: DMA pciide0: using irq 11 for native-PCI interrupt pciide1 at pci0 dev 15 function 1 "VIA VT82C571 IDE" rev 0x06: ATA133, channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to compatibility wd0 at pciide1 channel 0 drive 0: <ST380011A> wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 76319MB, 156301488 sectors wd0(pciide1:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5 atapiscsi0 at pciide1 channel 1 drive 0 scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <HL-DT-ST, DVD-ROM GDR8162B, 0019> SCSI0 5/cdrom removable atapiscsi1 at pciide1 channel 1 drive 1 scsibus1 at atapiscsi1: 2 targets cd1 at scsibus1 targ 0 lun 0: <SONY, CD-RW CRX215E5, 6.1L> SCSI0 5/cdrom removable cd0(pciide1:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 cd1(pciide1:1:1): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 uhci0 at pci0 dev 16 function 0 "VIA VT83C572 USB" rev 0x81: irq 5 usb0 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0 at usb0 uhub0: VIA UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci1 at pci0 dev 16 function 1 "VIA VT83C572 USB" rev 0x81: irq 5 usb1 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1 at usb1 uhub1: VIA UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci2 at pci0 dev 16 function 2 "VIA VT83C572 USB" rev 0x81: irq 11 usb2 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0 uhub2 at usb2 uhub2: VIA UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci3 at pci0 dev 16 function 3 "VIA VT83C572 USB" rev 0x81: irq 11 usb3 at uhci3: USB revision 1.0 uhub3 at usb3 uhub3: VIA UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub3: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered ehci0 at pci0 dev 16 function 4 "VIA VT6202 USB" rev 0x86: irq 5 usb4 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0 uhub4 at usb4 uhub4: VIA EHCI root hub, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub4: 8 ports with 8 removable, self powered viapm0 at pci0 dev 17 function 0 "VIA VT8237 ISA" rev 0x00 iic0 at viapm0 auvia0 at pci0 dev 17 function 5 "VIA VT8233 AC97" rev 0x60: irq 5 ac97: codec id 0x414c4780 (Avance Logic ALC658 rev 0) ac97: codec features 20 bit DAC, 18 bit ADC, No 3D Stereo audio0 at auvia0 vr0 at pci0 dev 18 function 0 "VIA RhineII-2" rev 0x78: irq 10, address 00:0e:a6:a0:c4:04 ukphy0 at vr0 phy 1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface, rev. 8: OUI 0x004063, model 0x0032 isa0 at mainbus0 isadma0 at isa0 pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker> spkr0 at pcppi0 lm0 at isa0 port 0x290/8: W83697HF npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: reported by CPUID; using exception 16 fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2 fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec biomask fbfd netmask fffd ttymask ffff pctr: user-level cycle counter enabled mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support umass0 at uhub3 port 1 configuration 1 interface 0uhidev0 at uhub1 port 2 configuration 1 interface 0 umass0: vendor 0x058f USB Reader, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2 umass0: using SCSI over Bulk-Only uhidev0: Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse, rev 2.00/21.00, addr 2, iclass 3/1 scsibus2 at umass0: 2 targets ums0 at uhidev0: 8 buttons and Z dir. wsmouse0 at ums0 mux 0 sd0 at scsibus2 targ 1 lun 0: <Generic, USB SD Reader, 1.00> SCSI0 0/direct removable sd0: drive offline sd1 at scsibus2 targ 1 lun 1: <Generic, USB CF Reader, 1.01> SCSI0 0/direct removable sd1: drive offline sd2 at scsibus2 targ 1 lun 2: <Generic, USB SM Reader, 1.02> SCSI0 0/direct removable sd2: drive offline sd3 at scsibus2 targ 1 lun 3: <Generic, USB MS Reader, 1.03> SCSI0 0/direct removable sd3: drive offline dkcsum: wd0 matches BIOS drive 0x80 root on wd0a rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 rawdev=0x302