Compaq WL-210 chipset?

[David Gibson]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 01:47:17PM +1000, Iain wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am a bit confused about the chipset in the Compaq WL-210 cards.
> 
> This site says that it is a primsII chipset: 
> http://melbwireless.dyndns.org/pages.php?page=Hardware+Database
> 
> Whereas on the howto it implies that they are orinoco cards:
> 
> http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Linux.Wireless.drivers.html#Prism2
> 
> "on the other hand, the WL 110, WL 210 and WL 215 are Orinoco cards)"

Orinoco cards are based on the Prism II chipset, but they have a
different firmware from the one provided by Intersil.  Incidentally
(at least some of the) Aironet cards are also based on the Prism II
chipset, but have yet another, and more substantially different,
firmware.

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