[Wirelessdriver-support] ?s {Airport Ready? Senao Cards? Driver?}

[Eric L. <er...@ra...>]

Well with more futzing around I have produced more questions that me
tooling around on the internet didn't help me answer.

So since the PCI->PCMCIA bridge I was borrowing wasn't recognized, I
needed some other options.  I thought "Hmm presumbably the 'Airport
Ready' nature of the motherboard means their must be pci-pcmcia bridge
chip on the motherboard that is recognized, maybe I can find that and
go by a bridge that uses it." so I went looking around.  Didn't find
the chip, but I did notice that I could just stick the rebadged silver
card I had into the airport connector.  Which is probably only
possible since my computer is raw parts in a rubbermaid container
(I.e., I have lots of space, no special 90 degree connectors required)
After a quick reboot my mac thought it had an Airport card in it.  The
little airport menu thing worked, I could join my local network,
macstumber worked, etc.  Certainly much better signal strength and
range than the crappy USB Belkin I was using.

So, the trick is this: I don't want to use the silver card I have now,
I want to use a Senao 200mw Ext2 card so that I can get enough power
to get to my buddies signal (and net connection) at his place.  Which
leads to the question of "If I plug in the Senao will the os just
pretend it is an airport and let me use it."  Which I imagine is
entirely up to the chipset and if it is the same type of chipset that
is in the airport.  

Since I couldn't figure that out (no net connection at home), I
thought I would try and see if I could get the silver working with the
WirelessDriver (since I know it supports the Senao and the silver and
if I can get it working on one, then it should be fine for the other)
I moved the airport drivers out of the way and put the WirelessDriver
in and rebooted.  No love.  No messages in the dmesg output, the
troubleshooting script seems to think things are ok, except that the
wireless card section is just blank.  For kicks I gave the IOExperts
driver a try, and same thing, it just doesn't think I have a card
inserted.


1) What chipset is the airport client card?  

1a) Does anyone know if the airport driver will run the Senao card?

2) Will the wireless driver work with cards in the airport slot on G4
airport ready machines?

3) A previous post mentioned that I might be able to get my
PCI->PCMCIA bridge 'working' in some fashion if I enabled 'dubbing' in
the driver when recompling.  I didn't find the word 'dub' in any
project or framework file, so if someone could elaborate that would be
great.

4) If you have any suggestions for gettin a Senao Ext2 working in a
gigabit g4 'airport ready' machine, I would love to hear them.  I
would like to get all this working over the weekend.  Thanks.

-eric