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 -- [email protected] mailing list
