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[amigadave]

@Chris Hodges,

Since you are online and reading this thread, what are your opinions on the possibility of getting a wireless USB network adapter to work with AmigaOS3.x, or MorphOS2.x?

Neil Cafferkey has improved the Prism2 driver to include WPA support recently and I am almost desperate to get some kind of wireless networking running on any of my MorphOS2.x machines.

I would love to be able to use one of my two wireless PCMCIA Prism2 compatible cards in my G4 PowerBook running MorphOS2.8 when it is released, as it has been stated that the internal Airport card will not be supported in the initial release of MorphOS for G4 PowerBooks, and may not be supported ever in the future, unless some third party developer wants to complete a driver for it.

I would gladly pay you, or Neil Cafferkey (or anyone else that could complete one) for a driver for the internal Airport Extreme card inside my 1.67GHz G4 PowerBook.  But since the G4 PowerBook also has a PCMCIA slot, it seems to me that an easier solution for wireless networking, would be to first get the MorphOS Dev. Team to activate that device (the PCMCIA slot is currently blacklisted due to some incompatibilities experienced in the past), and then just use Neil Cafferkey's Prism2 device driver for MorphOS2.x.  If there is an easier solution using a USB wireless networking device, then I am all for that too.

The advantage of getting a wireless USB networking device supported, is that it could be used on any Amiga, or MorphOS computer with USB ports.

[amigadave]

Neil has adapted his driver to work over USB on Poseidon for AROS. He recently asked for the Poseidon Classic/MorphOS SDK to try to port it there. Feel free to bribe him, he deserves it for his great work and it might help go get things done more quickly.

Thanks for the info.  I already knew (or suspected) that Neil was working on a MorphOS2.x port, but was unaware that he had already completed an adapted driver that works over USB on Poseidon for AROS.  That is good news and gives me hope that it will not be long before he succeeds duplicating that work for MorphOS2.x.

I will gladly donate and/or purchase such an adapted driver from Neil when it is done, or if needed, donate now to help get it done sooner, and I hope that other MorphOS2.x users will do the same.

Thanks again for the updated info in your answer.  Thanks also for Poseidon and I hope you continue to write new programs & utilities for AmigaOS3.x, 4.x, MorphOS2.x & AROS in the future and we see some amazing new program or utility from you soon.