hi to all,

I'm fairly new in using OpenBSD. I have installed OpenBSD on my router (a
Magnia SG 30) in my home network. In my opinion OpenBSD has some
advantages over Linux & FreeBSD for this. Today I was thinking about
setting it up as an access point for wlan and was reading some related
infos I can get from various sources. And now I hav a question:

Which (modern) wlan card can I use to configure my OpenBSD router as an
access point?

The manpage of wi(4) mentions a lot of older cards that one can use for
this purpose. No card on this list seems to be available in germany
anymore. I found only used cards on ebay but I don not like this option.

If someone has a recommendation for me, it would be nice.

regards,

Michael

Michael Zoet wrote:
> hi to all,
>
>
> Which (modern) wlan card can I use to configure my OpenBSD router as an
> access point?

Linksys WMP54G v4. works very nicely

Michael Zoet <Michael.Zoet@web.de> writes:

> The manpage of wi(4) mentions a lot of older cards that one can use for
> this purpose. No card on this list seems to be available in germany
> anymore. I found only used cards on ebay but I don not like this option.

wi is not the only possible wireless driver in OpenBSD. The ones I
use are ath(4) cards[1], ral(4) and a few others should work quite well
also (see eg the OpenBSD FAQ section 6.13).

[1] various D-Link cards, see the largish footnote at
http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/wi...ple.setup.html

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On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 00:54:11 -0700, dude wrote:

>
> Michael Zoet wrote:
>> hi to all,
>>
>>
>> Which (modern) wlan card can I use to configure my OpenBSD router as an
>> access point?
>
> Linksys WMP54G v4. works very nicely

Thx for the Info. I will try this card.

On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 10:13:36 +0200, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote:

> Michael Zoet <Michael.Zoet@web.de> writes:
>
>> The manpage of wi(4) mentions a lot of older cards that one can use for
>> this purpose. No card on this list seems to be available in germany
>> anymore. I found only used cards on ebay but I don not like this option.
>
> wi is not the only possible wireless driver in OpenBSD. The ones I
> use are ath(4) cards[1], ral(4) and a few others should work quite well
> also (see eg the OpenBSD FAQ section 6.13).
>
> [1] various D-Link cards, see the largish footnote at
> http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/wi...ple.setup.html

Thx for the link. It seems I found only old documentation, where people
mention hostap only works with wi cards. I should have looked in the FAQs...