Lennart Augustsson writes:
> I've only heard about two kinds of hardware.  The one you mentioned and
> a chip from Atmel.

According to <http://www.digit-life.com/articles/lucentorinocousb/>,
the Lucent/Orinoco wireless USB client uses a Cypress CY7C64613 USB
microcontroller to drive a standard Lucent/Orinoco PCMCIA wireless
network card.
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Andreas Gustafsson, gson@nominum.com