Re: [Wirelessdriver-support] Airport Extreme / 802.11g

[Nick S. <ns...@qu...>]

Rob McKeever wrote:

> Nice assumptions, but...
>
> 1) Apple isn't using the Intersil PRISM GT chipset.  They are using a 
> Broadcom chip.  This info comes from the hardware team involved. 

My bad. Fortunately, the Linksys WPC54G is also a Broadcom device under 
the covers

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>
> 2) There will need to be some work done to support the cardbus 
> interface.  It is more than a little bit different than a 16-bit 
> PCCard interface as it tries to handle things as if they were 
> hot-swappable PCI devices, like PCI-X. 

Ah, but I am suggesting that the Airport Extreme driver is not the same 
one as the ordinary Airport driver. Since Apple's Airport Extreme card 
is mini PCI, the more relevant comparison is between Cardbus drivers and 
PCI drivers. I am hoping that Apple's Airport Extreme card drivers can 
be trivially configured to talk to a Cardbus card (that is, you can take 
a driver that normally talks to an IOPCIDevice and make it talk instead 
to an IOCardBusDevice that implements the same hardware interface). I 
suspect that they're not going to ship Airport Extreme hardware until 
10.2.4 is out, which I suspect will contain an AirportExtreme.kext.


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> 3) You could get the Airport Extreme card to work in a desktop with 
> some work... namely a PCI adapter board.  There will likely be other 
> issues you'd come across, but you wouldn't know in advance. 

As soon as the parts (a WMP-11 and Apple's AE module) arrive, I'm going 
to try it.