Re: Networking (WireLess)

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On Friday 09 January 2004 06:06 pm, William Hooper wrote:
> Rick Stevens said:
> > orinoco and orinoco_cs are the drivers for Prism chipsets.  There
> > are others (wavelan, etc.)
>
> For a time the Lucent cards were branded "Orinoco".  The Prism2 part
> of the code was added later.
>
> [whooper@butters wireless]$ head -9 orinoco_cs.c
> /* orinoco_cs.c 0.13d   - (formerly known as dldwd_cs.c)
>  *
>  * A driver for "Hermes" chipset based PCMCIA wireless adaptors, such
>  * as the Lucent WavelanIEEE/Orinoco cards and their OEM (Cabletron/
>  * EnteraSys RoamAbout 802.11, ELSA Airlancer, Melco Buffalo and
> others). * It should also be usable on various Prism II based cards
> such as the * Linksys, D-Link and Farallon Skyline. It should also
> work on Symbol * cards such as the 3Com AirConnect and Ericsson WLAN.

You can scratch Linksys and D-Link.  The current production version of 
the Linksys WPM11 uses the Broadcom chip.  D-Link is now using Athros.
mw

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