On Sunday 29 December 2002 9:27 am, David Bottrill wrote:
On Sun, 2002-12-29 at 06:47, Michael Sacco wrote:
Hello all. I recently set up a wireless router with my internet connection, and bought a Microsoft mn-520 wireless pcmcia adapter [...] I believe the M$ cards are like WinModems, they use the Laptop processor to do most of the work so I doubt the card will be supported in the near future.
Being that is "is made by (for) microsoft", I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to find a routine in the card's firmware that checks [via an "undocumented" call] what OS it is running under and either refuse to operate, or operate in a "degraded" manner, if the OS isn't windows [or worse, winxp, and pre-programmed to expect 'the next' version of windows when it is scheduled to come out...] [now, if that could be *proved*, the boys over in the various anti-trust courts would have a field day with it :) ]