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   Message 333 of 1,512   
   Michael Gehm to Adam K Kirchhoff   
   Re: Which "BeOS" is recommended for a ne   
   22 Jan 04 21:50:07   
   
   From: michael.gehm@gmx.de   
      
   Hi Adam,   
      
   thanks a lot !! I own a ELSA Airlancer PCMCIA card with PRISM2 chip, should   
   work....   
      
   Michael   
      
      
      
      
      
   Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:   
      
   > Michael Gehm  wrote:   
   >> Hi again,   
   >   
   >> before I finally check the burning-image-question for myself, I had   
   >> anothet question. As I see now there are different versions available ->   
   >> BeOS PE   
   >> 5.03 -> BeOS Developer Edition  1.1 -> BeOS Max Edition 3.0 .......?   
   >   
   >> Which ist the newest/best/most suitable for me a "normal user" ? But it   
   >> should be able to work with with a PCMCIA WLAN card.   
   >   
   >> Thank you   
   >   
   > Good luck with the PCMCIA WLAN card.  Unless it's a prism2 card (a   
   > number of older models are, most newer ones aren't) you will not get it   
   > to work under BeOS, with any version.  If it is a prism2 card, you will   
   > need BONE, a rewrite of the BeOS networking system that Be Inc. never   
   > publically released.  The last beta (7, I believe) that they put out   
   > should support prism2 pcmcia wireless cards (I managed to get it to work   
   > last   
   > summer).  I don't know this for a  fact, but I believe that BeOS Max   
   > Edition comes with Bone7 installed, so you might get lucky with that   
   > version.   
   >   
   > Note:  The prism2 drivers do *not* support WEP.   
   >   
   > Adam   
      
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