[Wirelessdriver-support] RE: [kismac] little guide to MAC address customization

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

Thanks for posting this guide. I would like to share its existence with the 
readers of the Source Forge driver support and development lists. The 
complete guide is posted at

http://kismac.binaervarianz.de/wiki/wiki.php/KisMAC/FAQTechnicalMacCustomization

I also have some suggestions for making the guide more complete. By sharing 
this, the readers of either the Kismac list or the source forge lists can 
make contributions of information.

Here are come comments and questions for all to review, with exerpts of the 
guide quoted for context....


>AIRPORT EXTREME
>Tested on Panther and Tiger, but might work on all X OSes.....

Hopefully someone could test and indicate whether this works in Jaguar 
(10.2.8).

>PRISM 2 & ORINOCO CARDS
...
>- Panther: WirelessMac does not work in Panther. Patch the kernel following
>the instruction posted here ....

Please include link to the referenced instructions for Panther.

>- Tiger: method not supported. the patch for the sf driver is not yet 
>ported
>to Tiger.

Has anyone began to look at what it would take to port the patch? Would the 
programming changes to patch it be similar or totally different?

>PRISMGT CARDS
...>Note: PrismGT based cards are increasingly difficult to find as vendors 
are
>silently replacing the chipset in these cards without anyway of knowing. 
>Try
>your card before you buy it.

A list of vendors known or believed likely to be shipping Prism GT cards 
would be helpful. If anyone got a PRISM GT Card please speak up on what kind 
and where obtained.

>USB PRISM2 DEVICES
>On all Mac OSes, flash the firmware following this set of instructions and
>the Windows exe firmware patcher from
>http://www.frars.org.uk/cgi-bin/render.pl?pageid=1109.
>Note: Do this at own risk!

Is there a Mac based flasher, or do we really have to flash it in Windows? 
Does it hurt the card if one does it repeatedly?

>OTHER CHIPSETS

What are the leading chipsets used in wireless cards available for purchase 
today? Which are increasing in popularity and which are declining?