Wireless support in previous releases
  • The most important drivers and chipsets:
    • wi: Orinoco & Prism2, PCMCIA/CardBus/PCI/USB
    • atw: ADMtek ADM8211
    • an: Cisco Aironet
  • Typically using a flash-based firmware
  • Active handling of 802.11 by the firmware
    • Restricted low-level access and possibilities
    • Only requires a very basic 802.11 support by the OS
  • 802.11b standard limited to 11Mbit/s
"Because It Has To Be Free / WLAN Support In OpenBSD", BSDCan, Ottawa, 2005-05-13
Reyk Floeter (reyk@openbsd.org)
OpenBSD Project (http://www.openbsd.org/)