[MLB-WIRELESS] diamond homefree cards?

[Tony Langdon]

> Does anyone know more about the diamond homefree cards, like what 
> chipsets and if they are full 80211.b standards?. These cards are way 
> cheap at only 20 bucks Australian, if you could hack an 
> external ant and 
> of they have been based on linux supported chipset, then we be 
> sweeeeeeeeeeet

First, they are not 802.11b.  They're a proprietry FHSS card.  Also, the
Diamond product us a bit like a "WinModem" in that some of the processing is
done on the host CPU, and therefore drivers for Linux get problematic.  I
don't know if anyone ever managed to hack up any Linux drivers.

Mind you, at that price, if I can get them to work under Win2k and Win95,
they might be a neat way of connecting the laptop up when I take it home (if
we ever get some decent weather, I could surf the Net from outside in the
sun :) ) - I'd need one PCI and one PCMCIA. :)

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