On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 14:49:53 -0500 (EST), Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Andy Ruhl wrote:
> 
> > Yeah, that's probably it then. The v3 card is cardbus, so I looked at
> > the documentation for this card. It seemed like the v2 and v1 were
> > similar, but this is probably not the case.
> 
> Most of the popular networking hardware companies have a habit of changing
> chipset entirely without changing model number -- they seem to think that a
> "version" number is adequate to tell the difference, and this version number
> is usually not visible on the outside of the package.

Not easily visible in the ones I've looked for. I think they may have
learned to put versioning on the outside. Well, some of them anyway.

I just received a Linksys WPC11 v3, and it actually states version 3
clearly on the card. And, long pause, it actually works. I struggled a
little with ifconfig to get it working, but now it's working. All I
need now is a decently sized storage device and I'll have a
functioning mini laptop running NetBSD. Too cool.

Andy