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On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 09:48:36PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Possibly in the future John. I took the Belkin back and got a Netgear
> WG311T for another $35. Staples let me open it there and based on the
> fact that the cd has some drivers on it that start with ATHE_* (the
> chipset has a tincover soldered to the board over it so we can't ID it
> that way), I'm assuming its an Atheros chipset, and Brian does has that
> support available in DD-WRT, which is where this puppy will live. But
> I'm up to my butt in alligators ATM, so it may be a day or 3 till I can
> try it. I have a 160GB drive laying on the lappies carry case in the
> doorway, to go up and be installed in the neighbors box to replace a 30GB
> that upchucked all over their windows install, and convince it to let me
> install windows on that box the 2nd time. M$ are such rectums over that.
> Its piracy you know. :(

Atheros makes a lot of different chipsets. Not all are supported. Many
newer ones require annoying firmware loaded into an arm processor on the
card. Hopefully you found one that does have a working driver.

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Len Sorensen
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