* Sam Halicke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-05-02]: > 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,
AEX cannot be put into _passive_ scanning mode under OSX. This actually was the reason why I bought the dongle. I got frustrated of the whole OS a few weeks later and installed gentoo. > 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. The DWL-122 I have _is_ equipped with the prism2 chip and AFAIK it is not supported internally because it is neither a PCMCIA nor a PCI card. I would be glad if you proved me wrong. Actually I have not found any WLAN USB device that is supported by the kernel directly (on the x86 platform many seem to be working with ndiswrapper). :wq -- [email protected] mailing list
