[clug] bios upgrade needed?

Alex Satrapa grail at goldweb.com.au
Tue Jul 19 00:57:31 GMT 2005


On 19 Jul 2005, at 10:47, Michael Still wrote:

> Yes, you do. I wonder if there is something about 802.11g which means
> they need to use the new version of the PCI spec, given this is now  
> the
> second time I have seen this...

I don't see why, since you can get standalone hardware that handle  
802.11g, and you can get PC Cards that handle it fine.

My guess is that the cheapest PCI chipsets for expansion cards happen  
to be PCI 2 only.


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