Wireless NIC Card

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <40C93338.4060606 at earthlink.net>
            Thomas Lippert <tlippert362 at earthlink.net> writes:
: On Thu Jun 10 16:16:58 2004 rtfm wrote:
: >    Are all variations of the netgear ma401 wireless nic card supported?  
: > I looked in the wi man page for 5.2-CURRENT, and it seems to mention 
: > model "ma401ra".  That card doesn't seem to exist, but I have come 
: > across an ma401na.  I just want to be sure that this card is what the 
: > man page was getting at before I purchase it.
: I have the ma401ra, on the box it just says ma401. I only see the 
: ma401ra in the output of dumpcis. i suspect this may just be a build 
: similar to the linksys cards which come in several versions. that being 
: said this card at least functions well. this is a pcmcia card not a 
: cardbus. This card does seem to work well on 5.x, though on this laptop 
: the appropriate slots are only working on current.

The ra card is symbol based, while the non ra card is prism 2/3
based.  I have no idea what the na card is.

Warner