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Hello,

> I would like to get wireless on my ultra5, as it's the only way
> currently I can get internet on the thing.
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> I've found a few options:
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> -usb wireless dongle ($a few)

Drivers should be machine-independent, if you get USB working and your dong=
le is supported by NetBSD it should just work.

> -pci wireless card ($some more)

Same here - if the chipset is supported chances are it will work on sparc64=
 too.=20

> -ethernet to wireless bridge ($a lot more)

Hmm, I've never seen one of these beasts.

> Does anyone have any experience doing this? I don't have much hope for
> getting pci wifi working; and I tried a belkin dongle on i386 which
> didn't have a driver (although I think the non-usb version works) so I
> am thinking of getting the ethernet to wireless bridge.

A few PCI chipsets ( and PCI-to-Cardbus resp. PCI-to-PCMCIA bridges ) are s=
upported, just not much tested on sparc64.

have fun
Michael

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