Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 15:59:05 -0500 (EST)
From: "Mark S. Mathews" <mark@linux-wlan.com>
To: linux-wlan-user@absoval.com
Subject: Re: [lwlan-user]: Re: linux-wlan-ng-0.1.8-pre5 works perfectly(?) with  Orinoco Silver
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The host interfaces for wavelan and prism2 are similar but nowhere near
identical.  The development of these two MACs diverged ~2-3 years
ago.  The basic functions will probably be the same....but once you get
beyond basic functionality, all bets are off.

-M

On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Eric Sandeen wrote:

> Yup, and I discovered last night that with minor tweaks, the wvlan_cs
> driver from the pcmcia-cs packages seems to be perfectly happy running a
> Linksys PrismII card - even in adhoc mode (although maybe only
> pseudo-adhoc)
> 
> What's going on here... :)
> 
> -Eric
> 
> Harry Mangalam wrote:
> > 
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > I'm the troublemaker with the D-Link DWL650 card; Had to get my wife an Orinoco Silver card for her Mac (required for her university access). But before it was lost to her undeserving Mac, I tried it
> > with the Linux config I've been on about recently
> > and it works perfectly off the bat, which was &%^%$#% astonishing.
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