On Oct 17, Martin Hicks <mort [ at ] bork [ dot ] org> wrote: > 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. Referring back to talk about Dell laptops, the experienced IT staff I work with here at Symbium tell me that, when you have a bunch of company laptops, or even desktops, it's best to go with Dell, rather than HP or IBM, as the components stay the same in Dell's when they has the same part number, even over a period of a couple of years. So you can swap parts, and you can swap the hard drive to a different machine that's the same model, and it "just works", cause all the bits are the same and the same drivers work. Rob