Prism2 Wireless on FC2?

Dave Ashby dave.ashby at 1993.usna.com
Tue Jun 1 21:03:50 UTC 2004


Alan wrote:

>On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 12:30, Dave Ashby wrote:
>  
>
>>Just upgraded to FC2.
>>
>>Good news: unlike FC1, pcmcia detects my wireless card at boot.
>>"cardctl ident" yields:
>>Socket 0:
>>  product info: "The Linksys Group, Inc.", "Instant Wireless Network PC 
>>Card", "ISL37300P", "RevA"
>>    
>>
>
>Are you sure this is a Prism2 card?  I thought Linksys switched to
>Broadcom for their wireless cards.  (Which have no drivers unless you
>use the Windows compatibility module hack.)
>
>If I can find where I put my Linksys card, i will compare version id. 
>Mine is a Prism2.  It is also real old.  (It is one of the old 76mw
>cards.)
>
>  
>
They're using Broadcom for their 802.11g cards. Older WPC11 cards used 
Prism2/2.5/3. Vers 4 of their WPC11 uses realtek[1].
-dave

[1] http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html.gz





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