On 2015/12/02 12:09, jus...@postgresql.org wrote: > On 2015-12-02 11:37, Ted Unangst wrote: > >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.
For those of us whose hardware procurement policy typically involves ebay, they can be quite useful, they are incomplete but there are loads of e.g. the HP nics available, and there are a lot fewer junk results if you can search for NC380T/NC382T than "dual port pci express gigabit" and have to sift through all the PCI-X ones that have been miscategorised. > >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) In a day or two when it arrives, it will be interesting to know whether it still uses the same chip (though this is more of a problem for wireless adapters than wired ones, as there are more IC vendors that a low-cost producer can choose between).
