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Re: Are PCIe WiFi cards physically all the same? - Jimmypoo - 06-18-2011

Not referring to the video - but rather, the capacity of the entire chipset to function.

Perhaps just like video was outsourced on most - the wifi was too? Which required
proprietary chipset for video and of course, those companies made their own driver.

Which should mean that any "thumb-drive" style stick (or PCIe) you might use for wifi should
work, since it will come with its own driver for Winduds.

Re: Are PCIe WiFi cards physically all the same? - deckeda - 06-18-2011

Yeah, I'll find out soon enough. The Intel 5300 I just ordered from Amazon isn't specific to any particular computer or brand. It's as cheap as any decent USB stick likely is, so I'll try it first. Maybe it'll work.

Re: Are PCIe WiFi cards physically all the same? - Buzz - 06-18-2011

Jimmypoo wrote:
[quote=deckeda]
"A man's GOT to know his limitations." (name the movie without looking it up.) <


Magnum Force - 1973.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VrFV5r8cs0

Harry Callahan was the easy part... the entire Dirty Harry collection is kinda like rainbow sherbet in my mind; hard to differentiate the individual flavors.

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Re: Are PCIe WiFi cards physically all the same? - Jimmypoo - 06-18-2011

>>>hard to differentiate the individual flavors


At least you know your limitations!

Re: Are PCIe WiFi cards physically all the same? - silvarios - 06-19-2011

deckeda wrote: My 1.83GHz C2D mini has 802.11n and its got architecture not too far off this laptop (except of course for the laptop's additional nVidia 7700, which I can't seem to disable without physically removing it---which I could do, but Windows doesn't come with a driver for the 945? It works with the generic VGA driver but doesn't offer the correct resolution.)

Pre NVIDIA Mac minis only supported 802.11g. You can upgrade to 802.11n with a mini PCI-E card with an Airport compatible chipset.

Re: Are PCIe WiFi cards physically all the same? - deckeda - 06-19-2011

Gadzooks!

Know of such a card?