WLAN EMERGENCY!!!!

[Jim Pelton]

I see. Sorry for the bad post. So does the wpc11 v.3 have a prism
chipset or Orinoco? --Jim aka "Mr. Misinformation"

On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 11:42, Jason Dixon wrote:
> 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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