> > Since there has been no systematic attempt to track working > > hardware, each purchase is a crapshoot. I own one "Lucent > > WaveLAN" PC24E-H-FC that works and just bought one "IBM" > > PC24E-H-FC that does not work. They're old cards, and the > > non-working one could just be dead. Or, it could have subtly > > different hardware on the inside. Who knows? > > One good way to know would be to look at the PCI device IDs.
True, and now that I've taken possession of the IBM card I can check these things. -sl
