Netgear WNA1000N USB wlan device
Warren Block
wblock at wonkity.com
Thu Nov 10 15:35:58 UTC 2011
On Thu, 10 Nov 2011, Glen Barber wrote:
> Netgear has these neat little USB micro wireless network adapters[1]
> that one could plug in and forget about without fear of, for example,
> breaking the device.
>
> Said devices are really nice for those of us without supported
> integrated wireless chipsets, such as those found in late 2010 MacBooks,
> or anything manufactured by Dell recently...
>
> The only problem is that the device itself is not supported.
>
> The device appears to have a RealTek RTL8188CUS chipset (vendor 0846,
> device 9041), which, without knowing much more about the device, I
> suspect could work with the urtw(4) driver. However, my feeble attempts
> at simulating support for the device ended, well, as expected. :)
OpenBSD has a urtwn driver. No idea whether anyone is working on a
port.
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=urtwn&sektion=4&format=html
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