Hi,

I use the Pretec CF wifi CompactWLAN card with my MP790 and it works 
flawlessly on NetBSD2.0. Granted, it was during the sysinst boot and an 
incomplete installed boot, but on both counts,its detected automatically and 
I had internet access within 1min flat.

It uses Prism2.5 chipset and has the Intersil something loaded. I need to 
boot up to have the dmesg though.

btw, you can get the Pretec card cheap for $20.50 incl of shipping from 
HSN.com. They have a $15 off first purchase on their site hsn.com search 
with google for the coupon.

There are two links on this url 
http://www.hpcfactor.com/forums/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=268&posts=8 that 
has a list of wifi cards with their chipset specified. I would believe most 
of the Prism2.5 chipset based cards would work well.

-Robin


"Andy Ruhl" <acruhl@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:78a2305a05021808335407f196@mail.gmail.com...
>I had asked about this earlier, and I didn't get much response.
>
> Can people recommend a wifi adapter for me that works with NetBSD 2.0?
>
> If you have one working, can you show me the dmesg so I can see which one 
> it is?
>
> The problem I've found is, you can find a part number for an adapter
> that works, but that isn't good enough. Many of them (most of them?)
> also have a version number which could mean that the adapter is
> largely not even close to the same as it was previously.
>
> For example, I looked at the Belkin F5D6020.
>
> I went down to the store and found that they had them, but they were
> cardbus! So I went to the Belkin website to look at them, and sure
> enough, the v3 adapter is cardbus. But the v2 isn't. So, stupid me, I
> decide that the v2 is the one I need. Wrong. It's got the same chipset
> as the v3, which isn't (yet?) supported under NetBSD. But the v1 card
> has a different chipset which IS supported.
>
> This is common to other manufacturers as well.
>
> Ugh.
>
> Doesn't help any that when I'm trying to buy these things the version
> number of the thing normally isn't advertised.
>
> So again, can anyone recommend a card, and possibly show the dmesg as 
> well?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Andy
>