-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Stroller wrote:
> > On Jul 24, 2005, at 8:44 am, Greg Bur wrote: > >> On 7/23/05, Ian K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> My other laptop has a nice atheros wireless card, very painless >>> to set up. I dont know what chipsets are on what cards, so >>> perhaps you could give me a model name and brand? I really just >>> want to be able to goto futureshop and pick one up.. :) Thank >>> you for understanding my dumbness. :) Ian >>> >> >> http://tinyurl.com/9l9wl > > > AIRSTATION 11MBPS WIRELESS PCMCIA LAPTOP CARD PC/MAC > >> That should work well for you ;) I noticed on a previous page >> that they offer an 802.11g card for $30 but I'm not sure about >> driver compatibility. > > > 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. > > 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. > > Stroller. > Get an Atheros or Prism54 based chipset, then all will be good. :) cheers. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFC48vGDkIR3wj6NQcRAnqvAJ9bwjMe1YHmWiejaZTkzXC4yKkgSgCdERYy +KzqOljKsnwNao0b7xh1lBU= =Ir/J -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
