Re: Re: Replacing airport extreme with another mini pci card

2004-04-27 Thread Michele Romeo
>Chris Howells a écrit : Looks at pictures of the airport extreme. Compare to other mini PCI cards. Completely different!http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2003/0108/airmac2.jpghttp://www.smartm.com/binary/photo/MiniPCI.jpg >Arg.>>Thank you very much for the pictures. Now, w

Re: Replacing airport extreme with another mini pci card

2004-03-11 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 the mental interface of Brad Boyer told: > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 02:12:14PM +, Chris Howells wrote: > > Yeah... though I'm wondering if it would be easier for someone to write a > > wrapper to enable OS X drivers to be used under Linux/PPC it's possible > > to use

Re: Replacing airport extreme with another mini pci card

2004-03-10 Thread Brad Boyer
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 02:12:14PM +, Chris Howells wrote: > Yeah... though I'm wondering if it would be easier for someone to write a > wrapper to enable OS X drivers to be used under Linux/PPC it's possible > to use Windows NDIS drivers under Linux/x86 and FreeBSD/x86 so surely it must

Re: Replacing airport extreme with another mini pci card

2004-03-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, Chris Howells a écrit : Looks at pictures of the airport extreme. Compare to other mini PCI cards. Completely different! http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2003/0108/airmac2.jpg http://www.smartm.com/binary/photo/MiniPCI.jpg Arg. Thank you very much for the pictures. Now, we ar

Re: Replacing airport extreme with another mini pci card

2004-03-09 Thread Chris Howells
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 09 March 2004 13:43, Sven Luther wrote: > Also, i guess that, given skill and money, it should be possible to > design such a replacement card. Yeah... though I'm wondering if it would be easier for someone to write a wrapper to enable OS

Re: Replacing airport extreme with another mini pci card

2004-03-09 Thread Chris Howells
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 08 March 2004 23:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What you say is very important. But how to verify ? Looks at pictures of the airport extreme. Compare to other mini PCI cards. Completely different! http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2003/01

Re: Replacing airport extreme with another mini pci card

2004-03-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 12:42:03AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > Chris Howells a écrit : > > > > >The problem is that they aren't "pin per pin" compatible. > > What you say is very important. But how to verify ? > > Is it possible to find any information about electrical design of t

Re: Replacing airport extreme with another mini pci card

2004-03-08 Thread Chris Howells
> On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 08:34:06PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> I mean the problem is : is the airport extreme completely "pin per pin" >> mini-pci compatible with the standard...The ways is I recently have >> found some mini-pci wifi cards encapsuleted in pci card. A couple of > > Why n

Re: Replacing airport extreme with another mini pci card

2004-03-08 Thread Paul Mullen
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 08:34:06PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I mean the problem is : is the airport extreme completely "pin per pin" > mini-pci compatible with the standard...The ways is I recently have > found some mini-pci wifi cards encapsuleted in pci card. A couple of Why not ju

Re: Replacing airport extreme with another mini pci card

2004-03-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, Chris Howells a écrit : The problem is that they aren't "pin per pin" compatible. What you say is very important. But how to verify ? Is it possible to find any information about electrical design of the airport extreme ? (I mean mini-pci specifiaction can more be easy to find) Eric

Re: Replacing airport extreme with another mini pci card

2004-03-08 Thread Chris Howells
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 08 March 2004 19:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I mean the problem is : is the airport extreme completely "pin per pin" > mini-pci compatible with the standard...The ways is I recently have The problem is that they aren't "pin per pin" compa

Re: Replacing airport extreme with another mini pci card

2004-03-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, Michel Dänzer a écrit : On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 22:40, Sjoerd Simons wrote: After some research i found out that an airport extreme is a mini-pci card, so it could theoretically be replaced with a working one. Has anyone ever tried this ? It this is true, I perhaps have found some i

Re: Replacing airport extreme with another mini pci card

2004-03-07 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 22:40, Sjoerd Simons wrote: > > After some research i found out that an airport extreme is a mini-pci card, > so it could theoretically be replaced with a working one. Has anyone > ever tried this ? AFAIK Mini-PCI isn't nearly as standardised as PCI (yet), so I'm afr

Re: Replacing airport extreme with another mini pci card

2004-03-07 Thread Chris Howells
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 07 March 2004 22:13, Sven Luther wrote: > >   After some research i found out that an airport extreme is a mini-pci > > card, so it could theoretically be replaced with a working one.  Has > > anyone ever tried this ? > > If this would work,

Re: Replacing airport extreme with another mini pci card

2004-03-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 10:40:09PM +0100, Sjoerd Simons wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a new laptop and a powerbook looks very nice. > Unfortunately as you all know, the built-in wlan isn't supported in > linux. You could always resort to a USB wlan stick, as has been suggested here prev

Replacing airport extreme with another mini pci card

2004-03-07 Thread Sjoerd Simons
Hi, I'm looking for a new laptop and a powerbook looks very nice. Unfortunately as you all know, the built-in wlan isn't supported in linux. After some research i found out that an airport extreme is a mini-pci card, so it could theoretically be replaced with a working one. Has any