On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Ben Serebin wrote: > ORiNOCO Cards Power Consumption (from ORiNOCO's website) > > Modes - Doze / Receiver / Transmit > Silver/Gold 9mA / 185mA / 285mA > Combo 15mA / 320mA / 560mA >
Ummm, keep in mind that the 11b cards are 5V, and the 11a/b cards are 3.3V (CardBus). The difference comes to about 33%, and only in the Transmit (1.5W vs 2W). I've seen *tons* of references to a 3.3V 11b cards in the ORiNOCO drivers, but I have yet to encounter a non-5V Hermes chipset. Then again, there are references to a "Ruby" chipset in the newer drivers, but... Kevin "Starfox" Arima -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
