Re: Laptop Considerations

[Chris Meidinger <chris.meidinger () badenit de>]

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> Thanks all for your feedback on the atheros chipset. I appreciate it.
>
> Time to re-visit the madwifi project :-)
>
> Chris, I think the Aironet has its own chipset which was designed for
> cisco. I don't believe it's Atheros.
>  
Ghaith,  i have 2 Cisco WLAN cards. The Aironet 350 (AIR-PCM350) is 
cisco chipset (which is basically prism2 on steroids). The Aironet 
802.11a/b/g (AIR-CB21AG-E-K9) is atheros chipset.

The most obvious thing to look for is atheros chipset makes /dev/ath0 
and cisco makes /dev/wlan0.

> Also, there is a new book under the title: "Wi-Foo: The Secrets of
> Wireless Hacking". I've ordered it and I'm expecting it to be
> delivered tomorrow. I read the description, and the author seems has
> tackled all those wifi issues for linux. I will let you know as soon
> as I come across those chapters.
The book is excellent. I bought it last summer and reference it regularly.

Cheers, Chris