Wireless PCMCIA Cards

[Bill Gradwohl]

Craig Thomas wrote:

>More than a vendor, what really matters is the chip set used in the
>wireless card.  And different models from the same vendor _may_ and
>_often_ use different chip sets for different manufacturing runs of the
>same model card.  The specific model/version number should help you
>determine the chip set manufacturer.  
>
>Finding out the chip set manufacturer is the easy way to know if the
>card will work or not.  Drivers work with specific chip sets.
>
>It has been awhile [my wireless card is an older linksys wpc11 prism
>based--newer ones don't work I'm told], but a quick google turns up some
>useful looking results:
>
>http://www.wlug.org.nz/WirelessChipsets
>
>HTH,
>
>  
>
I researched the board, phoned the vendor and got lied to.

I asked specifically if they used the prism chipset and was told they 
did. When I got the board, it had the Atheros chipset. It also had a 
ridiculous hard wired antenna cable about 3 ft long protruding from the 
board. No way to disconnect it. That wasn't obvious from the vendors web 
site either.

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