[Wirelessdriver-support] Re: support and such

[Java N. <jav...@ho...>]

>One note here: any further development on drivers for Prism and Orinoco
>based hardware is likely to be a labor of love, since the hardware is
>now obsolete and getting harder to buy. Only a few PRISM-based cards
>are left on the market, and even the latest Orinoco cards (based on
>Agere's Hermes 2.0 chips) don't work with this driver (or IOXperts's,
>for similar reasons).  At IOXperts, we're looking into ways to support
>new features like WPA, in order to breathe a little more life into the
>802.11b cards people already own, but it's not clear to me how much
>vendor support the PRISM family has left after being sold by Harris to
>Intersil, and by Intersil to Globspan/Virata (which was recently bought
>by Conexant)...

So, then, what are the preferred long-range cards these days for Macintosh 
and what software should be used with them? There were several 200-300mw 
PRISM based cards that provided excellent range. And what are the preferred 
modern software tools for scanning for networks, with KisMac also having 
ceased development.

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