Wireless (again)

[max bianco]

On Jan 27, 2008 11:06 PM, Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net> wrote:

> max wrote:
>
> > Useful no doubt, but no answer to the question that was actually raised,
> > which was how one could find the chipset in a WiFi device.
>
> > Try looking at the wifi(wireless) card. I mean take it in your hand and
> > look at it. Do you notice anything?
>
> I have two PCMCIA WiFi cards in my hand.
> One is named "Orinoco Gold" and the other "Vivanco WLAN PCC 54".
> I notice two things about them:
>
> 1) Neither has any mention of the chipset it contains
>
> 2) Neither has any obvious way of seeing what is in the card,
> short of destroying it.
>
> What did you think I would notice, as a matter of interest?
>
> Model Number, revision number,MAC address, serial number
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