This past weekend I upgraded my home firewall, wintermute, and one of my internal servers, aragorn, to OpenBSD 4.2. aragorn was running 4.1, and wintermute was kicking ass on 3.6!

wintermute is the first computer I ever owned; a Sony VAIO PCV-90. It’s a 90MHz Pentium with 64MB of RAM and an (upgraded) 3600 RPM 8GB PATA drive. aragorn is an ancient PowerEdge 1300 I bought for a contract many years ago; it’s a two-way Pentium II 400MHz box with something like 128MB of RAM and a couple of SCSI disks.

I’ve previously lamented the flakiness of the uath USB Atheros WLAN driver in OpenBSD 4.1. I’m happy to report that I’ve found a suitable alternative: the Ralink 2500-based Alfa AWUS036S.

For reasons I wrote extensively about then lost when I accidentally navigated away from my blog posting form, I’m trying to get a USB wlan adapter going with an OpenBSD VM running kismet. I thought the Engenius EUB-362 EXT with its Atheros USB chipset would be just the ticket; after all, the new [uath(4)](http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=uath&sektion=4) driver says it supports such chipsets, and the EUB-362 has an RP-SMA connector and 200mw of transmit power!