another PCMCIA goody!

[Neo]

My Netgear Wireless card on my Laptop is 16bit 5V. So, there is still being cards manufactured for that standard. But I guess some high performance cards may use 32bit and 3.3V.

Anyway, wireless support for Amiga may not show up sone because the lack of 68k drivers. (Manufacturers can't release the source or specs due to FCC compliance rules)

For the USB ones check the specs. There are more 16bit 5V cards on the market than you think. But, ofcourse you have to make sure you can get a driver for it.

[Neo]

@adolescent

I got this info about the FCC from one of those open source drivers.
The radio part in those drivers are precompiled x86 code that you have
to link your open source driver to make it work. Apparently there are
drivers for PPC too. But I'm not sure that any of the Linux drivers
are for 68k systems. Haven't seen any yet!

I wanted to do a driver for Atheros based cards (Netgear, D-Link and
more) a couple of months ago but couldn't find any code that wheren't
bound to Intel machines.

[Neo]

I would guess that many USB 1.0 and 1.1 cards are 16bit. However I'm
quite sure most USB 2.0 cards are 32bit.

32bit yeilds higher speed, but for a 11Mbit connection it wouldn't do
much different.

I've noticed that my 3com 10/100Mbit ethernet card for my laptop is
actually a 16bit version.

16bit cards are usually called PC Card or PCMCIA, while 32bit cards
are called CARDBUS.

Interresting that someone reversed engineered some of the WLAN
drivers and made the code MPL. I'll guess I have to try adding a
PCMCIA slot to my A3000 so I can play with it.