I guess I would be able to switch off the 802.11g part until years from
now when there is a driver??? There's only a few dollard difference
between the cards, so I figure I might as well get it...
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 19:20, Ian Blenke wrote:
> Eric Jahn wrote:
> > Would there be any reason to get the Gold versus the Classic Gold
> > wireless card? I've read the Classic Gold has an external antennae
> > port...but other than the Gold having support for 802.11b/g I can't see
> > any difference. Thanks!
>
> 802.11b, sure. That's the Orinoco driver. But 802.11g? I'm not sure
> about chipset support for this under Linux.
>
> You can flash older silver cards to gold cards with the correct
> firmware. Some APs that used the Orinoco cards actually would
> auto-upgrade the firmware on a Silver card.
>
> Me? I'm a fan of old school cheap Prism2 cards (I've learned to love the
> hostap driver) or Cisco Aironet cards. Had I the budget to buy new toys,
> I'd like to have some of the newer chipsets to play with as well.
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