>Subject: Re: PCI standards/card compatibility
>From: Duncan Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Clae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: 05 Feb 2003 14:13:13 +1100
>
>As just "cross my fingers and see if it works" experiment I tried a
>dlink dwl-520 card (pci 2.2 "required") in a Mac 6360 (mid 90s?) that I
>was given to mess about with, and it worked fine.
>
>This card has not worked in any PCs of the same era. Maybe Apple
>overspecced their PCI or used very very new chipsets, or it is just pure
>luck, who knows.
>
>I am using the hostap drivers http://hostap.epitest.fi/ with Debian PPC
>Linux ("testing" distro) and it works quite well, for what it is. have
>noticed the bandwidth slows with wep (software wep in the kernel
>creaking under the load!) and ssh sessions hang sometimes but I think
>that is more a performance issue than anything. Long term stability of
>the little box has been very good.
>
>
>
>On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 03:09, Clae wrote:
>> A friend of mine managed to get a wireless networking PCI card -which
>> from memory was supposed to be only 2.1 or 2.2 compatible - going in
>> a 6360 under linux. I've passed this message on to him for any more
>> info he might care to add.
>>
>> Clae.
>>
>> >Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 14:17:31 -0500
>> >From: Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >Subject: PCI standards/card compatibility
>> >
>> >To what degree are 2.1 and 2.2 PCI cards compatible with older
>> >powermacs with PCI 2.0 slots (which is basically all pre- G3s)?
>--
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>is the worst I can remember: worse than McCarthyism, worse than the Bay
>of Pigs and in the long term potentially more disastrous than the
>Vietnam War."
> - John le Carre http://www.snopes2.com/rumors/lecarre.htm
>
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