Are PCIe WiFi cards physically all the same?

[Jimmypoo]

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.

[deckeda]

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.

[Buzz]

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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[Jimmypoo]

>>>hard to differentiate the individual flavors


At least you know your limitations!

[silvarios]

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.

[deckeda]

Gadzooks!

Know of such a card?