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On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 18:00:27 +0100, Stroller wrote: |
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> The Macintosh-compatible 802.11g card uses the same Broadcom chipset as |
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> Apple's "Airport Extreme" products - I know, because I sold three of |
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> these cards to another Mac-reseller last week. I believe that there are |
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> no open-source drivers for this chipset, and have seen NDISwrapper |
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> referred to in many forums articles relating to it. |
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The driver for the Broadcom chip in the Airport Extreme card is indeed |
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closed source. You can use it with ndiswrapper on x86, but not in an |
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Apple laptop. |
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> This is not a comment on the 802.11b 11MBPS card that your link points |
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> to - for all I know that may use the excellently-supported Prism |
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> chipset. |
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The Airport card uses a different chipset from the Airport extreme, one |
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for which an open source driver is available. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Seduced by the Chocolate side of the Force... |
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