On 2015-12-02 11:37, Ted Unangst wrote:
There are many other product lists, but starting with the two big
broadcom
flavors here. I've had a dozen machines with bge, but none of them
were listed
in the man page. I don't think these product lists are helpful.
1. If you have a device and want to know if it's supported, there's
no reverse
mapping from product to driver. How do I know what driver supports my
NC320m
nic? It's faster to plug it in and find out than to read every
ethernet man
page looking for it. (And then plugging it in anyway after I don't
find it
because these lists are perpetually out of date.)
2. If you have picked a driver and are trying to find a device, these
are very
incomplete guides. Most of the devices aren't for sale anymore. Many
of the
rest are now revision B or revision C and may or may not work.
I think we are better off not maintaining such lists. We document the
chip
(family) supported by the driver. Consult the spec sheet if you want
to know
which chip is on your network card.
Hmmmm, to me his doesn't sound like the best approach. This is because
I'm
a newbie with OpenBSD, and only recently went looking for Wifi adapters
that
will work.
For the ral man page, it lists a whole bunch:
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/ral.4?query=ral
* A-Link WL54H. AirLive WN-5000PCI. Amigo AWI-926W. AMIT WL531P.
AOpen AOI-831.
ASUS WL-130G. ASUS WL-130N. ASUS WIFI-G-AAY. Atlantis Land
A02-PCI-W54.
Belkin F5D7000 v3. Canyon CN-WF511. CNet CWP-854. Compex WLP54G.
...
Zinwell ZWX-G361. Zonet ZEW1600.
This was directly helpful to me, as I was able to plug those into
Amazon (UK)
and find a few still for sale. (Now on the way to me via post)
Would a better approach be to put the adapters under a section titled
something
like "Older models" or similar, so the info is still there for people
but it's
obvious they're not recent hardware?
Regards and best wishes,
Justin Clift
