On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 20:50:46 -0500, htravis@attglobal.net wrote:
> The
> problem for us and "b" is mostly that the prism-based "b" cards with
> drivers are going away. (In the US) Netgear is no longer listing
> theirs. (And, they came with 5 yr warrantees. Will I better off should
> mine fail before Xmas '05 at age 3 and they send me a current "g" card
> for which there's no driver?
We've had a hardware support issue for over a decade. By the time you have a
driver for a particular 802.11g card, the card will be discontinued. I solve
the problem by having spares, or knowing who in the OS/2 world is selling parts
that do work with the drivers we have.
Let me put it another way. I use OS/2 (or eComStation). I buy the best parts I
can get that have OS/2 support. I really don't care what other parts are out
there.
If my 802.11b card fails, I've got two sources for new ones with OS/2 drivers.
One reason I like the idea of GenMac so much is that I can use the Windows
driver, and get OS/2 support from it. That is an actual solution to the
decade-old hardware problem. Now when "this week's" hardware comes out, I can
just use GenMac. (I hope)
Neil
--
Neil Waldhauer, neil@blondeguy.com
Why buy the entire Pig just to get a little sausage?
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