Re: Replacing airport extreme with another mini pci card
Hi,
Michel Dänzer a écrit :
On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 22:40, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
After some research i found out that an airport extreme is a mini-pci card,
so it could theoretically be replaced with a working one. Has anyone
ever tried this ?
It this is true, I perhaps have found some informations. See above.
AFAIK Mini-PCI isn't nearly as standardised as PCI (yet), so I'm afraid
this won't work.
I mean the problem is : is the airport extreme completely "pin per pin"
mini-pci compatible with the standard...The ways is I recently have
found some mini-pci wifi cards encapsuleted in pci card. A couple of
solutions are existing (for example ):
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
Producer | Model | Chipset
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
Gemtek WL850 Prism GT
GlobalSun Tech GL2454 MP Atheros
"" "" GL2454MP-OT TI
NDC NWH3050 TI
Sparklan WL-850 F Prism GT
"" "" WL-558 "" ""
USI MP-AG-AT-01(3B) Atheros
ZCom XG600 Prism GT
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
FYI : all the above references are coming from :
http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html.gz
So reading this (not realy complete :-) )list, another problem arrives :
are the existing solutions available with powerpc architecture ?
...because the most often used "workaround" is to use the "ndiswrapper"
(not for me)solution. The use of the window-drivers ndiswrapper is not
possible with powerpc arch.
I'm not sure, but the only "candidate" seems to be the Prism GT chipset,
but I can be wrong.
Two days ago I've asked on #prism54 channel irc.freenode.org , but none
gave me any answer :-/
Of course, every comment is welcome :-)
With best regards,
Eric Bachard
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