On Tuesday 05 February 2002 01:41, Christian Bricart wrote: | oh .. at least I have two PCMCIA card in a PCI adaptor card .. and it's | NOT PCMCIA .. it's PLX .. most of the adaptor cards are PLX - which is, | from what I've understood so far, more like a ISA bridge than a PCI .. | that's why those cards are not hot-pluggable | see the "orinoco_plx" Kernel module under "Wireless (non Ham Radio)" in | the Kernel for instance ..
Well I hadn't heard of the PLX cards. Sounds pretty stupid to me when they could have just implemented a PCMCIA adapter. On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 04:16:07PM +0000, Vadim Plessky wrote: > Ok, let me speak about D-Link DWL-650 > It has PC Card Type II bus, and support IEEE 802.11b and WiFi standards, plus > 64/128-bit WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) Encryption. The DWL-650 is just a rebranded WaveLan aka Orinoco aka Lucent card. Details on making it work are here: http://www.focusresearch.com/dwl-650.html (And yes Mandrake already ships the driver) > DWL-120 > Wireless USB Adapter, IEEE 802.11b, WEP, USB 1.1 I would guess unless DLink releases the specs on this it will never be functional with Linux. > DWL-500 > Wireless PCI Adapter, IEEE 802.11b, WEP, PCI 2.1 The above site speculates that this is just a PCMCIA adapter. And looking at the results when searching around the net seems to imply that it is indeed that. > Frankly speaking, I do not know what "PLX" is. PC Card is somewhat industry > standard on laptops, and I don't know why someone would like to use different > connector type for wireless adpaters. I don't think he meant the wireless card was PLX but rather that the PCI card was PLX if that makes any sense. But from my searching it seems that the PLX card are in the minority. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy? - Ghandi
