On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 10:41:50 +0100, Kris Steenhaut wrote:
>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.
No it isn't - it gets *power* from the USB port if you want to.
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