On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 the mental interface of Brad Boyer told: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 01:01:33PM -0500, Chris Anderson wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 12:55, Greg Gilbert wrote: > > > I thought the Airport and Airport Extreme cards used different > > > interfaces, is this just the case on the ibook and not the > > > powerbook? > > > > I was told by several people that Powerbooks could use both, perhaps I > > heard wrong? > > No, there is no model that can use both the Apple Airport and the > Apple Airport Extreme cards. However, PowerBooks with PCMCIA can > use the old Lucent WaveLan Silver card which is the original card > that was the basis of the original Airport. There are several > names that Lucent used for their PCMCIA cards, but make sure you > only try the 802.11b cards, since the 802.11g ones use a different > chipset. [...] There are linux-drivers for 802.11g available at http://prism54.org. At leastI am running a SMC2835W with them on my pb ;-) Ciao Elimar -- It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.
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