PCMCIA wireless cards....\'just works\'?
Scot L. Harris
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Thu Dec 23 13:31:50 UTC 2004
On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 11:53, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> yeah only the b card is an intersil chipset...
>
> > Anyone have experience using the Proxim ORiNOCO 11b/g Gold 802.11g/b (8470-WD)?
>
> should be atheros, the proxim abg cards are.
One thing to watch out for, the card vendors have a habit of using
different chip sets in their cards while keeping the part number the
same. You have to look for the version number as well or run lspci on a
card that is inserted to figure out which chip set is being used.
This is true of D-Link DWL-G650 cards. The one I have (version 1 I
think) is a prism chip set that works with the prism54 drivers. Version
2 I understand is an atheros chip set.
I think the same issue occurred with some of the Orinoco cards. Seem to
remember reading a number of posts about people having problems and
finding different chip sets in later cards.
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