[Soekris] What wireless card for OpenBSD 5501 router

[Stuart Henderson]

On 2007/06/25 22:41, Ralph Becker-Szendy wrote:
> This brings up the question: What wireless miniPCI card to pick.  I
> had assumed that Atheros cards are the default that everyone uses;
> Wistron cards are for example available from www.netgate.com.

Those are AR5213-based, currently not supported by OpenBSD's ath(4)
driver. Older Atheros cards (like the one supplied with some IBM
laptops) work pretty well though.

Of the MiniPCI cards available from Netgate, the Senao PRISM
card (2511 MP Plus) is probably the best choice for OpenBSD and
should work pretty well as long as you don't want hostapd(8) -
it shouldn't be necessary for your setup.

Other options for host AP + hostapd on OpenBSD are acx, pgt, ral.

I haven't tried acx/pgt (though have read reports of acx having a
good radio); ral is better-supported (manufacturer has made
documentation available, it wasn't reverse-engineered) but the
radios aren't so good on the ones I've tried (couple of samples
of Gigabyte WIKG).

rum also does host AP + hostapd, but it's PCIE/USB only.

rtw also does this, but "While PCI devices will attach most of
them are not able to transmit" so it's mostly useful for cardbus.

Me? I'd probably try and lose the USB PCI card and try PCI acx...