Re: wifi card for netbsd

From: Donn Miller (hackr_d_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/27/05 

Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 16:54:47 -0400

antani wrote:
> Hi.
> 1st of all, sorry for my english: i hope that's all will be
> comprehensible.
> then. I've to buy a wireless card for my ibm z50 (is coming from US,
> bought with ebay)(hpcmips port); i need a pcmcia and cheap device,
> probably findable trough ebay europe.
> In this [1] page, the author write about d-link dwl 650 and linksys
> wpc11. the first have many revisions (as far I understand, supported
> until v.3), the second is extremely rare to find.
> I never use Netbsd; my experience with *nix are only with debian linux.
>
> Which card you suggest?
> It's the dwl 650+ supported from netbsd hpcmips?

Are you looking for 802.11b or 802.11g? I've got the newer Belkin
wireless G cardbus card, which has the Ralink 2500 chipset. It's
supported, but only on -current. I've found that it works quite well
under *BSD, not so well under Linux.

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