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Old 6th April 2009
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Originally Posted by guitarscn View Post
I have no idea how to find out what chipset they are or if OpenBSD supports them.
These are two questions, so I will answer them independently:
  • I spent a moment looking at both Newegg's & Rosewill's Webpages searching for the base wireless chipsets, & did not find them, so you may need to spend time doing various Google searches to find out this information.
  • To find out what wireless chipsets are supported by OpenBSD, issue the following command:

    $ apropos wireless

    ...& sift through the list for wireless drivers. On the individual manpages, it is quite common for a list of supported products to be found. As an example, look at ath(4). There, a list of (known) compatible products & their form factors (PCI, CardBus, mini-PCI, etc.) are given. Many of the other driver manpages provide similar information.
So to answer your own question(s), you will need to spend time spelunking on the Web. Tedious? Perhaps, but with patience you may very well find your answers.
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