On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 10:10:01AM +0100, Mikael Bak wrote: > > Mikael Bak schrieb: > >> Hi list, > >> > >> Seems to me that this card isn't recognized at boot time (dmesg pasted > >> at the end of this email). It's a PCMCIA card. Instead of a wifi > >> device OpenBSD tries to allocate a serial port (com3). ... > Yes, this is a very old card, and it does only 802.11b and can only do > wep. I know it's not secure, I'd only use it at home for playing around > with and learn OpenBSD. If OpenBSD has no driver for it then I use wired > network. I just thought I'd ask in the list just in case. > > I have been using this wifi card successfully in FreeBSD, so I thought > it might work in OpenBSD too. > > Anyway. If somebody on the list has made this card work in OpenBSD then > I am all ears :-)
You might want to try 4.5 and see if that works for you. I have a wi in an old dell laptop too that no longer got detected as of 4.6. If anyone wants to see it for some reason, I can post a dmesg tomorrow sometime. -- Michael Small sma...@panix.com
