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Offline jdiffend

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Re: Wireless Ethernet - Amiga 500?
« on: November 19, 2004, 06:24:36 PM »
The wireless card on ebay was an 802.11b card with drivers.  Since the 802.11b card is not a CardBuss card it is hardware compatible with the Amiga 1200/600 but you'd need a decent CPU to keep up with the 802.11b protocol and encryption.

I know there was someone working on drivers for such a card.  It would involve modifying the drivers for PCMCIA networking cards but it wouldn't be impossible.

BTW, since 802.11G requires the bandwidth of CardBuss you won't see it on an Amiga 1200.  I don't even know if the Amiga could handle that much bandwidth even if the card type weren't an issue.