From: "Kris Steenhaut" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
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Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 10:41:50 +0100
Organization: CFM$-FC (Coalition for Micro$oft-Free Computing)
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To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless]Re: Asus WL-330g problems
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Ed Durrant wrote:
> Kris Steenhaut wrote:
>> Stanley Sidlov wrote:
>>> On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 19:39:32 +0100, Kris Steenhaut wrote:
>>>
>>>  
>>>>  
>>>> Most likely it has a different inbuild chip now. As I told, 
>>>> "standard procedure".
>>>>
>>>> Just look at what is happening with the late IBM Thinkpad. (-:
>>>>     
>>>
>>> Shouldn't matter, it's an EXTERNAL DEVICE not a PCMCIA card.
>>>
>>>   
>> Please explain: why doesn't matter an EXTERNAL DEVICE with a 
>> different  chip? Different inbuild chip means different driver, so on 
>> the contrary it a matter of working or non-working.  Please exlain 
>> why not.
>>
> My understanding is that this is a totally external box, connected as 
> a router to the system via ethernet - hence the drivers required on 
> the PC are for the NIC port, not the WiFi unit.
>
> It's the sort of thing you plug into a Sony Playstation to make it 
> wireless - i.e. it's Operating system agnostic.
>
Nor exactly. Remember it is an USB device, so it well could be something had been changed at that point. Remember too, USB still is the eCS Achilleus heel.


-- 
Groeten uit Gent,

   Kris