Re: RE: Dual Boot HowTo

* Sam Halicke <[email protected]> [2005-05-02]:
> The Airport Extreme also has its caveats that might make one buy a
> PCMCIA/USB wireless even under OSX, namely that it will not run in
> Active mode under KisMAC, 

AEX cannot be put into _passive_ scanning mode under OSX. This
actually was the reason why I bought the dongle. I got frustrated
of the whole OS a few weeks later and installed gentoo. 

 
> Avoid wlan-ng drivers at all costs. If you get a USB or PCMCIA PRISM2 or
> Orinoco based card (there are several, use google), you'll have full
> in-kernel support and be able to work with the wireless-tools package. 

The DWL-122 I have _is_ equipped with the prism2 chip and AFAIK it
is not supported internally because it is neither a PCMCIA nor a
PCI card. I would be glad if you proved me wrong. Actually I have
not found any WLAN USB device that is supported by the kernel
directly (on the x86 platform many seem to be working with
ndiswrapper).


:wq
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