Da Rock wrote: >>>>> Useful no doubt, but no answer to the question that was actually >>>>> raised, which was how one could find the chipset in a WiFi device. >>>> >>>>> Try looking at the wifi(wireless) card. I mean take it in your hand >>>>> and look at it. Do you notice anything? >>>> >>>> I have two PCMCIA WiFi cards in my hand. >>>> One is named "Orinoco Gold" and the other "Vivanco WLAN PCC 54". >>>> I notice two things about them: >>>> >>>> 1) Neither has any mention of the chipset it contains >>>> >>>> 2) Neither has any obvious way of seeing what is in the card, >>>> short of destroying it. >>>> >>>> What did you think I would notice, as a matter of interest? >> >>> 1. You should see a version or product number (may be in small print, so >>> put on your glasses and look). 2. You should see a serial number. >> >> Sigh. >> I do see the product number on the card >> (not the firmware version, since I have upgraded this). >> I do see the serial number. >> >> I DO NOT SEE THE CHIPSET. >> > > Well then, thats what you should look up. Sigh. I don't want to know the chipset in any card I have, as they all work perfectly well with drivers in the kernel. The question at issue was: How can you tell the chipset of a WiFi card. The reply I was given was that it is written on the card. I simply pointed out that this is not true. I have never seen a WiFi card with the chipset given on it. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
