prism cards

[Francois BERGERET]

Hi friends,

I am using Micronet cards from Taiwan in a Soekris embeded PC running Bering with hostap, for HAM radio hobby. I have two different
cards : SP905V2 and SP905BDV2.

They are Prism 2.5 based.

All twice are from Z-com manufacturer instead :
- SP905V2 = XI-300B
- SP905BDV2 = XI-325H

They have two MMCX connectors for external antennas but are provided with a small slim antenna for laptop PC.

The best one is the SP905BDV2/XI-325H regarding ouput power and (mainly) its great RX sensitivity against competitors.

I leave in France, and it is possible to buy them here, from the Micronet importer at @ 78 EURO for the SP905BDV2. They have a lot
of wireless equipments...

I know but not have a SP906BA with Intersil chipset too but in PCI format.

GES (Generale Electronique Service)
Phone +33 1 64.41.78.88
Fax   +33 1 60.63.24.85
VoIP phoneH.323 callto:80.13.8.11
wireless at ges.fr (but seems to be out of service this days, may be on vacation).

Best Regards,
Francois BERGERET,
France.

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : hostap-bounces at shmoo.com [mailto:hostap-bounces at shmoo.com]De la
> part de Greg Johnson
> Envoye : mardi 19 aout 2003 17:11
> A : hostap at shmoo.com; vicente.paredes at gruein.com
> Objet : prism cards
>
>
> Hello Vicente,
>
>   I have also had a terrible time obtaining prism-based wireless cards.
> The best I could come up with was to troll ebay.com looking for them.
>
>   I use D-Link DWL-520 cards, which work great.  But, the Prism-based
> versions are no longer available.  Note:  the DWL-520+ are NOT Prism-based
> and will not work with hostap as far as I know.  Also, there are something
> like three variants of the DWL-520 card, and the last one is not Prism-based
> either.  The only way to tell on ebay is to closely examine the picture of
> the card.
>
>   Here is a URL for a Prism-based DWL-520 on ebay:
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3041951026&category=45001
>
>   Here is a URL for a non-Prism-based DWL-520 on ebay that will not work
> with hostap:
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3041508175&category=20321
>
>   (I know from experience:  I am now the proud owner of one of the latter :-(.)
>
>   If the picture of the card has a large blue and white component on it, then
> it is a Prism-based hostap-compatible card.  If the picture has only small
> black components, then it is not Prism-based and is not hostap-compatible.
>
>   It seems to me that the disappearance of Prism-based cards represents a
> threat to the whole hostap project.  The hostap project is one of the most
> wonderful things I've found on the net for a while (THANKS JOUNI especially
> and all contributors!!).
>
>   What (if anything) can be done to encourage the continued viability of this
> great project by protecting the availability of the hardware required for it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Greg Johnson
>
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