802.11 on powerbook

[Anthony Lanni]

I'm using a lucent Orinoco "silver" pcmcia card, and it works great - 
after proper configuration, of course.
Check the archives for this list, there's lots of info about it there.

thx
    anthony

Jim Bauer wrote:

>On Sunday 11 July 2004 18:52, Clinton MacDonald wrote:
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>>On Sun, 2004-07-11 at 15:11, Jim Bauer wrote:
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>>>>Anyone find a currently available 802.11b (or g) pcmcia card that
>>>>works on YDL on a powerbook? I have tried 2 so far and both are
>>>>non-starters with the combination of linux and ppc.
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>>To which Ed Stover replied:
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>>>my apple airport card works wonderfully, all the USB ones I have
>>>work as well with minimum configuration.
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>>Ed is right, of course. However, keep in mind that 802.11g devices
>>(which Apple calls Airport Extreme) are not supported by any form of
>>Linux including YDL.   If your PowerBook is relatively new and uses
>>Airport Extreme, you will have to find a 802.11b PCMCIA card or the USB
>>adapter.
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>All that I know.  That's why I am looking for a pcmcia card that will work.  I 
>tried both a Linksys and a D-Link.  After the fact, I discovered that they 
>both use the same Realtek controler that doesn't have any Linux driver 
>available unless you happen to be on an x86 platform.  I can only assume 
>Realtek is too embarrassed about their driver to release the source.
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>>Slightly off topic, do 802.11b/g USB devices really work? I have never
>>seen one on the store shelves. Also, how about 802.11b for older Macs
>>(like my Power Mac 7500), either as a SCSI device or PCI card?
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>I have seen one at a store the other day, but otherwise don't know anything 
>about them.
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