On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 15:05 +0200, Markus Moebs wrote:
> * Hota, Chris G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-04-29]:
> > Just remember, since Broadcom won't release specs for the Airport Extreme, 
> > you won't have wireless.
> 
The Airport Extreme also has its caveats that might make one buy a
PCMCIA/USB wireless even under OSX, namely that it will not run in
Active mode under KisMAC, which has been frustrating when I needed
wireless but couldn't crack a simple WEP key. 

> You can still use a WLAN USB dongle. I got the D-Link DWL-122
> working on my iBook G4 with the linux-wlan-ng drivers.  Tricky
> setup, (and poor D-Link hardware), but better than nothing and it
> cost me just something about EUR25 and a few hours sleep.
> 
Avoid wlan-ng drivers at all costs. If you get a USB or PCMCIA PRISM2 or
Orinoco based card (there are several, use google), you'll have full
in-kernel support and be able to work with the wireless-tools package. 
> And with a PB or AB you will even be able to use PCMCIA WLAN 
> cards. AFAIK plenty of them are supported under Linux. 
> 
> :wq
Cheers

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