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Strangely, Edimax describes the EW-7128g as "(For Middle East Only)". Does anyone know what that implies (in this context)? Amazon seems to be selling one in the US. |
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Excellent, thanks! With that, the man page becomes more useful.
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Any experiences with specific wireless PCI NIC's on OpenBSD, Post them here! I need to choose a product and make a purchase so I can dump FreeBSD and install OpenBSD and move on with actually using the computer (Whoa, I just had a JEFFK moment ) |
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Maybe if driver doesn't use hardware crypt engine, it is using software based? If yes, it is good. For current CPUs it is not a big task. Only if you really care about power saving for ultra-long use of laptop/ultrabook you should care for hardware crypto.
In Linux there are a lot of advice for owners of Wifi cards to not use hardware crypto, because this in lot of driver causes slower performance and/or instability. I know that also basing on my experience. I have a Wifi card (it is not supported on OpenBSD), for which default is to use software based crypto and when I switched to hardware crypto engine on that card, I have had instabilities. |
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Unless your connection is extremely fast, I do not think you will see much of a performance difference with hardware based crypto.
FreeBSD citing a security risk, disabled Intel and Via random number generators with version 10 and rely on software. Although I can't find it, I recall that OpenBSD relies on /dev/random and the Intel/Via RNGs are disabled by default. More here. I've run OpenBSD on an old ECS Desknote with a Via 733mhz cpu, 512mb ram and an ralink based usb adapter. Local sftp transfers do not seem any slower than a dual core, amd64 based system with 2gb ram. |
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seems to be pretty good source and guide.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compar...rivers#OpenBSD |
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The Edimax EW-7128g NIC with the RaLink RT2561 chipset using the ral(4) driver is working nicely. It's only been a few days but it seems to be maintaining a robust connection to the wireless network.
The device was recognized and configured during OS installation - no extra firmware files needed - and (so far) it has been a pleasure. I'll probably tune the dhclient configuration then set up ifstated to monitor the connection and restore it if it disconnects. Thanks again for the pointer, shep! |
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