Re: Prism2 Wireless on FC2?

[Dave Ashby]

Alan wrote:

> On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 12:30, Dave Ashby wrote:
>   
>
> >Just upgraded to FC2.
> >
> >Good news: unlike FC1, pcmcia detects my wireless card at boot.
> >"cardctl ident" yields:
> >Socket 0:
> >  product info: "The Linksys Group, Inc.", "Instant Wireless Network PC
>
> >Card", "ISL37300P", "RevA"
> >    
> >
>
> Are you sure this is a Prism2 card?  I thought Linksys switched to
> Broadcom for their wireless cards.  (Which have no drivers unless you
> use the Windows compatibility module hack.)
>
> If I can find where I put my Linksys card, i will compare version id. 
> Mine is a Prism2.  It is also real old.  (It is one of the old 76mw
> cards.)
>
>   
>  
They're using Broadcom for their 802.11g cards. Older WPC11 cards used 
Prism2/2.5/3. Vers 4 of their WPC11 uses realtek[1].
-dave

[1] http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html.gz