Mac airport card

Jon Knight J.P.Knight at lboro.ac.uk
Wed Aug 15 22:27:14 EST 2001


On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Glen Steedman wrote:
> Will these cards be able to talk to Webgear Aviator that use's FH rather
> then DS to talk to each other, like do these cards have both modes as
> 802.11b was released later ?

Most DS mode cards can't talk to FH nodes.  Whilst the original standard
allowed for both DS and FH (plus the IR modes) most (if not all) vendors
picked one or the other.  To do both your card would need to have two
completely different radio subsystems.

Tatty bye,

Jim'll





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