OS X Hax

More on 802.11g

I've learned some more about Airport
Extreme.

1. I was wrong about Apple using the Prism GT chipset. According to the rumors, it uses a chip by Broadcom.
2. My Linksys WPC54G arrived. According to ioreg, it also uses the new Broadcom chip. I did some further googling around and I now remain convinced that getting Airport Extreme to work will require nothing more than an Info.plist entry to have the driver find and associate with this card.
3. I took apart my WMP11 card today. Sure enough, it's a mini-PCI adapter with a miniPCI card. However, now that I've got it taken apart, the bus interface doesn't look very much like the one on the picture of the Airport Extreme card you can see on Apple's site. The good news, however, is that Linksys sells a WMP54G, which is an 802.11g PCI device. Since Broadcom's site shows reference implemenetations for Cardbus and Mini PCI, I'll bet a dozen doughnuts that the WMP54G is the same Mini PCI adapter as the WMP11 with an 802.11g mini-PCI module attached.