Wifi card chipset DB

[gabrielle harrison and Paul van den Bergen]

On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 13:34:35 +1000, marcus <lists at wordit.com> wrote:

>>> How do you find out which chipset the card uses?
>>> The manufacturer pages usually lack the info, and the vendors don't
>>> usually know either.
>
>> surely ifconfig or trolling through dmesg would be a good start...
>
> The thread is related to buying a card, not polling info from a card you
> have.

sure, apologies.

You've probably checked already, but have a search around the various  
community wifi groups - they often have breakdowns of chipsets on cards,  
ditto the dev sites for the linux wifi drivers. ndiswrapper springs to  
mind... e.g. http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html.gz



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