hardware

[Tim Seufert]

On Wednesday, March 26, 2003, at 11:40  AM, Stefan Bruda wrote:

> Of course, airport extreme does 802.11g which nobody knows how it
> looks.  In fact, I believe it is not even a standard yet, just a
> proposal.

802.11g is a draft standard (which is a bit further along than a 
proposal).  It's quite common for implementations of various bits of 
telecom hardware to appear before a draft standard is finalized.  
Vendors can't resist the opportunity to get a jump on the competition, 
and hope they will be able to accomodate any changes in the spec 
through firmware updates.

>   So an airpors extreme card has no chance of working at
> anything larger than 0 (i.e., ZERO) Mb/s.

The reason why it has no chance of working is that no Linux driver 
currently exists for whatever 802.11g chipset Apple OEMed (I've heard 
it's Broadcom), not that the information on the 802.11g protocol is 
unavailable.