Re: Caution when choosing PCMCIA wireless cards (was Re: 17 inch powerbook 1.33Ghz problems)
On 24/12/2003, at 1:38 AM, Barry Hawkins wrote:
1.) Not all Orinoco cards are equal. I just found this out the hard
way when I bought an Orinoco Silver 802.11b/g card after hearing that
an Orinoco Silver card should work fine for Mac OS and Linux. If you
are looking to buy one of those, be sure to buy the "Classic" Orinoco
802.11b card. The classic models are based on the HERMES 1.0 chipset
that so many of the drivers out there work with. The newer cards have
an unknown chipset, althoug
Wow, no kidding? Didn't realize this - thanks for the heads up.
Things really are looking down in terms of decent, well supported
chipsets in Linux (or in fact, anything *but* Windows) :-(
R
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