A Reckless Guide to OpenBSD
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I started playing around with openBSD more primarily out of lockdown-induced boredom. At first I got pretty frustrated that I couldn't get all of the linux goodies I was used to. But the more I use openBSD, the more I love it. And it has made me a better programmer as well. Whether at home or on the job, more and more I find myself reading the docs first before simply googling a problem and pasting in someone else's code.
I tried about 10 different wifi usb dongles and all but one were completely unsupported or unusably unreliable (as in 5-10% packet loss, and sometimes needing unplug/replug) on OpenBSD.
All the guidance I found was "just get one with this chipset". But it's not that simple. It's usually not listed on product pages, so you have to guess.
And even the ones that do have the right chip can be very unreliable. Granted, most that I tried were super cheap. But those super cheap ones worked fine on Linux.
In the end I found one that worked properly with OpenBSD. Old and unbranded, so it wouldn't even help you.
I don't think there's a single 802.11ac USB dongle with free drivers. On Linux there are separately downloadable kernel modules, but I've found that to be a nightmare not necessarily to get working, but to keep working across kernel upgrades.
So my suggestion is to look at supported chips, try to guess which products have that chip, and buy a few. Hopefully one works.
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Thank goodness for gemini.
Why would they publish a website like this? Why did OP post this?
> but they have the right....
I didn't deny that.