From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DwlTu-0007hJ-7l for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 18:45:46 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6OIhYR0008035; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 18:43:34 GMT Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.205]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6OIcFM8027677 for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 18:38:16 GMT Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 67so857932wri for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 11:39:07 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=L/7jRHhGk5T+YFwHKR3fyY8ukMFya0cZkWLwkXyaKsEZt9Megp4wG6YYmALIWx5/+TxrZXj2A4CNL0LmQiJ6qoH76oL1KvSDIaSfY1/iynf99i+PH2rcIwTvxVFQNRhZ9ufiaKnKaxKKEi8iWgeSKbaGIyOp7d7kxcNgcaCsYNg= Received: by 10.54.97.3 with SMTP id u3mr1912659wrb; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 11:39:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.89.11 with HTTP; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 11:39:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <976cb44f050724113944192326@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 14:39:07 -0400 From: Greg Bur To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend me a good PCMCIA wireless network card In-Reply-To: <176553102965735d4b166d58f0aacfff@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <42E2E58B.6090709@yahoo.ca> <976cb44f050723235442e7b690@mail.gmail.com> <42E2F036.3090607@yahoo.ca> <976cb44f05072400442af3e982@mail.gmail.com> <176553102965735d4b166d58f0aacfff@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j6OIcFM8027677 X-Archives-Salt: 62d98a71-10da-43a2-b85c-36c7f271dfbf X-Archives-Hash: 2804b835bc0348e9970dc8254c115b6f On 7/24/05, Stroller wrote: > > On Jul 24, 2005, at 8:44 am, Greg Bur wrote: > > The Macintosh-compatible 802.11g card uses the same Broadcom chipset as > Apple's "Airport Extreme" products - I know, because I sold three of > these cards to another Mac-reseller last week. I believe that there are > no open-source drivers for this chipset, and have seen NDISwrapper > referred to in many forums articles relating to it. That answers my question of compatibility. > This is not a comment on the 802.11b 11MBPS card that your link points > to - for all I know that may use the excellently-supported Prism > chipset. I'm pretty sure it uses a supported chipset but I can't help but wonder if maybe Buffalo changed horses somewhere along the line and is now using Broadcom chipsets in all of their PC Cards. -- http://pizon.org -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list