Re: [NTLK] WaveLan Card Question

From: Rob Hoehn (rob_at_hoehn.com)
Date: Thu May 23 2002 - 20:59:01 EDT


Would the firmware version of the card have anything to do with the beta 1
driver not working?

Rob

> About the cards that haven't worked... my suspicion is that it is a question
> of the version of firmware in the card. There is a joke about the WaveLAN
> cards that any one you buy is virtually guaranteed to have out of date
> firmware. In my case, both of my cards have Spring 2001 firmware (last time
> I updated them); this is about a year old version, but was still many
> versions ahead of what was on the cards when I got them. There was
> apparently a major revision (which corresponded to the 6.0 release of the
> Windows drivers) which was when full IEEE 802.11b/WiFi compatability was
> implemented.
>
>> IIRC, the gold card has better encryption than the silver one.
>
> That's the difference, in a nutshell.
>
> <<<john>>>
>

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