Wireless (again)
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Tue Jan 29 01:21:47 UTC 2008
On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 16:34 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> Timothy Murphy wrote:
>
> > I was however interested from a purely academic point of view
> > to know if it is possible to determine the chipset
> > either from documentation or by use of some application.
>
> First, I have a PC card labeled "Orinoco Wireless Networks - Gold". It is
> made by Agere Systems. Has a nice product number on it of PC24E-H-FC. The
> label also has a serial number, a part number, a MAC address, a few other
> FCC and other agency's registration numbers.
>
> I don't have a laptop running any incantation of Linux. So, I can't tell
> you if the output of "lspci -vv" would reveal any clue as to the type of
> chipset it contains. A scanning electron microscope may come in handy about
> now....
>
> Or, try going to http://linux-wless.passys.nl/ and search there to see if
> your card is listed. I found mine...PC24E-H-FC. But, it is a good thing I
> used google to get to that web site as I didn't know that Agere was acquired
> by Lucent.
----
years ago - and the orinoco's generally just work and have worked on
Linux just about forever (with some limitations on promiscuous modes for
sniffing).
Craig
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