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* Sam Halicke <tuscantwelve@×××××.com> [2005-05-02]: |
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> The Airport Extreme also has its caveats that might make one buy a |
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> PCMCIA/USB wireless even under OSX, namely that it will not run in |
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> Active mode under KisMAC, |
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AEX cannot be put into _passive_ scanning mode under OSX. This |
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actually was the reason why I bought the dongle. I got frustrated |
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of the whole OS a few weeks later and installed gentoo. |
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> Avoid wlan-ng drivers at all costs. If you get a USB or PCMCIA PRISM2 or |
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> Orinoco based card (there are several, use google), you'll have full |
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> in-kernel support and be able to work with the wireless-tools package. |
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The DWL-122 I have _is_ equipped with the prism2 chip and AFAIK it |
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is not supported internally because it is neither a PCMCIA nor a |
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PCI card. I would be glad if you proved me wrong. Actually I have |
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not found any WLAN USB device that is supported by the kernel |
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directly (on the x86 platform many seem to be working with |
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ndiswrapper). |
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:wq |
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