[ale] USB wifi adaptor for Linux (Fedora) and old iBook/Mac

[tfreeman at intel.digichem.net]

On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Geoffrey wrote:

> Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 18:19 -0500, tfreeman at intel.digichem.net wrote:
> >> An added advantage of USB would be better war driving 8-), although
> >> using 
> >> that as an excuse is just silly.
> > 
> > I'm not expert but I've learned that you need a certain chipset for
> > kismet to be able to use a wifi card.  The best bet would be to purchase
> > an older Orinoco Gold 802.11b card from eBay.  It is PCMCIA.  Maybe your
> > laptop could support it?
> 
> prism54 chipset is also supported by kismet.

Well, the portable gear is Mac (iBook), so I use MacStumbler FWIW. 

I do thank you for your interest. 

> 
> 

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