On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 08:40:18AM -0500, David Gilbert wrote: > It would seem that it only takes one manufacturer to break this > cycle. There was also more incentive to do this when access points > were $1000 instead of $149.
Yes, but for all practical purposes there are only two manufactures which happen to have an highly incestious relationship because there are really only two chipsets on the market. > Didn't older access points simply consist of a router with a pccard > slot? Would they be using custome firmware uploaded to the card? That's how a lot of them work. They do use custom firmware. > Has someone been hacking on this? People are working on it, at least under Linux. This won't solve the vmware problems though because AP firmware doesn't look much like adaptor firmware. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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