> I think that Paul Guyot did explain what's happening here. Roughly, any
> driver will be asked what kind of cards it can recognize. When a card is
> inserted, there is a string that is returned by the card to the OS as the
> product ID, or something like that. If no driver match that string, the card
> will be reported as unrecognized. The current alpha driver only recognizes a
> specific, 1st generation WaveLan card. It only works in the "ad-hoc" mode,
> i.e. no base station. And, although I'm not 100% sure, I would guess that it
> won't work with any encryption active.
>
> -Laurent.
Thanks for the explanation Laurent.
I will try another wavelan silver card that a friend has - its older. He
might swap because it will not make any difference to him, as he is using it
in a powerbook.
Ian
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