On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Thomas McCain wrote:
> Hello,
> On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Victor wrote
>
> >There is currently no newton driver available for any wireless ethernet
> >card.
>
> There was a hack of a an ethernet driver that enabled the Proxim wireless
> ethernet cards to work floating around last year. I may have a copy
> somewhere, but someone else may have some actual use experience. I could
> never afford the Proxim equipment.
>
Wow! Never heard of that before... if you could dig it up and send it too
me I'd love to add it to my collection (it would also give me a reason to
update some other things my site)
> A Newton Wave Lan driver would be great though! I read a letter online
> from a guy who claimed to have cracked open an Apple Airport Base and said
> it mainly contained a PC card adaptor and a Wave Lan card. He even added
> an external antenna and increased its range. If it could be done for the
> Proxim card, hopefuly it can be done for the Wave Lan!
There is really only the PCMCIA version of the WaveLan adapters. I don't
know why, but every non-PCMCIA version that I've seen (and I helped to
implement a WaveLan network this past summer) is merely a PCI or ISA card
with a slot for the WaveLan PCMCIA card and a PCMCIA->PCI (or ISA) bridge.
Nothing more. The FCC might have something to say about that external
antenna though :)
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