[Gllug] BT Wireless

[Rich Walker]

Amias Channer <me at amias.org.uk> writes:

> On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 11:15:04 +0000
> Ian Norton <bredroll at darkspace.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> Yep,
>> 
>> Saw this, might go have a looksee, oh, btw there are some nice 802.11a/b cards
>> on ebayuk at the mo, only 25 quid a pop.
>
> Maplin (in hammersmith) has some noname 802.11b pcards for 20 quid a go .
> Although i've no idea what the chipsets are. they are pccard 7 spec.
> Will find out more.

My local Maplin has been doing them for £13. (Wood Green). There's one
humming away in my laptop now. They are based on a Texas Instruments
chipset, for which there are No Official Drivers, and a nice sourceforge
project with Working Drivers. (acx100 is the chipset).

Maplin have also sold (recently) some small blue USB wireless stuff,
which works with one of the at76c503 drivers (the one at berlios.de,
ISTR), and a small silver driver that has the Prism chipset in it that I
haven't got to work on anything. Plus, their new catalog has a £25 USB
"stick" wireless unit - haven't bought one yet...

cheers, Rich.

>
> Toodle-pip
> Amias
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