WLAN EMERGENCY!!!!

Jason Dixon jason at dixongroup.net
Thu Feb 26 18:42:57 UTC 2004


On Feb 26, 2004, at 1:35 PM, Jim Pelton wrote:

> Javier,
> I have struggled a little with WLAN cards in my Powerbook (yes yes I
> know diff, distro, but same idea). I found that many cards have
> different chipsets, but are packaged under the same model (but with
> different versions). It's important that you get a card with the 
> Orinoco
> PrismII chipset, because it's best supported under linux.

There is no such thing.  There is the Intersil prism(2/2.5/3), and the 
Orinoco chips.  The prism is able to use the orinoco_cs as a very 
simple driver, but they are not the same chipsets.

--
Jason Dixon, RHCE
DixonGroup Consulting
http://www.dixongroup.net






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