Re: wireless Q

[Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>]

On Friday 05 January 2007 09:26, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 09:48:36PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Possibly in the future John.  I took the Belkin back and got a Netgear
>> WG311T for another $35.  Staples let me open it there and based on the
>> fact that the cd has some drivers on it that start with ATHE_* (the
>> chipset has a tincover soldered to the board over it so we can't ID it
>> that way), I'm assuming its an Atheros chipset, and Brian does has
>> that support available in DD-WRT, which is where this puppy will live.
>>  But I'm up to my butt in alligators ATM, so it may be a day or 3 till
>> I can try it.  I have a 160GB drive laying on the lappies carry case
>> in the doorway, to go up and be installed in the neighbors box to
>> replace a 30GB that upchucked all over their windows install, and
>> convince it to let me install windows on that box the 2nd time.  M$
>> are such rectums over that. Its piracy you know. :(
>
>Atheros makes a lot of different chipsets.  Not all are supported.  Many
>newer ones require annoying firmware loaded into an arm processor on the
>card.  Hopefully you found one that does have a working driver.
>
>--
>Len Sorensen

On that I have NDI Len. DD-WRT doesn't work OOTB on this, but must have a 
registration key before it will enable the wireless stuff.

I requested an email from Brian when he was available so that I could 
trade the challenge number for an enabling key, but he hasn't replied 
yet.

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