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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] laptop


On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 11:55:48AM -0400, Messier, Jean-Francois wrote:
> The main issue with LinkSys PCMCIa cards is the firmware revision. If
> your firmware is revision 3 or lower, it uses PRISM2 chipset, and will
> run fine. Firmware version 4 and above are a problem. I settled usnig a
> Belkin card, and it works perfectly. This is only 802.11b, but it dows
> the job.

For all I know they may have change the chipset in the "rev 4" cards.
Linksys (and other vendors) have done this before:  Same model number,
totally different card.

mh

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