On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 08:16, Barry Hawkins wrote: > List, > It looks like the Proxim Orinoco wireless cards work well with those > needing to avoid the Broadcom-based Airport Extreme cards in Apple > portables. Any recommendation or enlightenment on whether the Silver > World card versus the Gold World card makes a difference regarding > Linux use? Are folks getting 802.11g throughput in addition to > 802.11b? Thanks in advance for the info.
There used to be a trick where if you stuck a cheaper Silver (40-bit WEP) card into your Airport slot, OS X would firmware upgrade the card on bootup to the Airport firmware (Gold; 8.12 AFAIK, which supports 128-bit WEP). The cards are essentially /exactly/ the same, minus the firmware. I assume this still works. R -- linux.conf.au 2004 - Adelaide, Australia http://lca2004.linux.org.au/ "Oh no, not again."