setting up wireless (linksys)

[Nick Guenther]

On 1/5/07, Nick Guenther <kousue at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/5/07, Charles Blair <c-blair at uiuc.edu> wrote:
> >    I currently have a computer running Windows, on which I
> > plan to install openBSD.  The machine uses a Linksys Wireless-G
> > USB adaptor, model WUSB54GC to make contact with a cable modem.
> > Luckily for me, the thing came with an idiot-proof installation CD.
> >
>
> Wifi is always very troublesome, because companies make it
> troublesome. There's a good chance drivers for this adaptor don't
> exist, or if they do, do not work for it. It depends. All the drivers
> for devices in OpenBSD are written by the developers of OpenBSD; I
> believe ndiswrapper (google it) does work on OpenBSD but it's a bad
> idea. I can't find this device's chipset on google or
> http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/List (useful
> resource!!)

Oh wait, sorry, I should have looked harder, http://ralink.rapla.net/
says that this device is a Ralink! Ralink (aka ral(4)) are a great
tawainese company that is open source friendly. The drivers for them,
except for periodic reports of kernal panics, are the best in OpenBSD.

-Nick