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On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 15:05 +0200, Markus Moebs wrote: |
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> * Hota, Chris G <cghota@××××××××××××××××××.edu> [2005-04-29]: |
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> > Just remember, since Broadcom won't release specs for the Airport Extreme, you won't have wireless. |
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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, which has been frustrating when I needed |
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wireless but couldn't crack a simple WEP key. |
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> You can still use a WLAN USB dongle. I got the D-Link DWL-122 |
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> working on my iBook G4 with the linux-wlan-ng drivers. Tricky |
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> setup, (and poor D-Link hardware), but better than nothing and it |
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> cost me just something about EUR25 and a few hours sleep. |
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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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> And with a PB or AB you will even be able to use PCMCIA WLAN |
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> cards. AFAIK plenty of them are supported under Linux. |
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> :wq |
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Cheers |
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