Wireless (again)

Timothy Murphy gayleard at eircom.net
Mon Feb 4 14:22:05 UTC 2008


Fred Erickson wrote:

> 
>> The question at issue was: How can you tell the chipset of a WiFi card.
>> The reply I was given was that it is written on the card.
>> I simply pointed out that this is not true.
>> I have never seen a WiFi card with the chipset given on it.
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Timothy Murphy
>> e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
>> tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
>> s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
>> 
> 
> This may be of no help for cards not manufactured to be sold in the USA
> and it often isn't even for cards that are. But, if the device has a FCC
> ID # on the back such as my Belkin F6D3010 PCMCIA wifi card (which had
> an Atheros logo on the box - the reason I bought it) go to this web
> address: www.fcc.gov/searchtools.html
> in the lower part of the page is a link to "FCC ID number search"
> On the search page, enter the 1st 3 digits of the id # in the 1st box,
> in this case K7S, which is the id for Belkin.
> In the 2nd box enter the remainder of the digits, including dashes, etc,
> in this case -F6D3010. Go to bottom of page to select "search"
> 
> On the next page select "Detail" view and then select "Internal photos"
> The photographer tried to hide all the details in the picture but you
> can make out the Atheros logo on the chip. On another usb wifi adapter
> my son uses (M$) the logo RA is visible. Some cards have good info and
> others, like these by Belkin, do not.

Thanks, that is very interesting.
As the OP, I should say I have never actually come across
the issue that started the discussion,
namely a manufacturer changing the chip without altering the version number.
But I'm sure it does happen, as several people have said.

-- 
Timothy Murphy  
e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland




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