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    Andreas_Wolf
    Posts: 12080 from 2003/5/22
    From: Germany
    > Since the regular Airport cards use a Prism2 compatible chipset, I
    > have been hopeful that the regular AirPort card in my dual 1.25GHz G4
    > PowerMac could be supported by a MorphOS driver some time in the
    > future, but the Prism2 driver that works on wireless PCMCIA cards for
    > A1200's & A600's might not be easy to port to the Mac's regular
    > PCMCIA AirPort card in a G4 PowerMac, which Apple made with a
    > different pin layout electrically than a regular PCMCIA card, even
    > though they both use the same socket type.

    Regarding the existing Prism2 driver, its author wrote:

    "In theory you should be able to use the native MorphOS version of prism2.device 1.x (the WEP-only version) [...]. MorphOS probably doesn't have a card.resource for the Powerbooks' PCMCIA/CardBus slot, but if it did you could perhaps use the 68k WPA prism2.device."
    http://www.amiga.org/forums/showpost.php?p=696038

    Interestingly, the MorphOS 3.0 release notes read:

    "Fixed to map Cardbus units of PowerMac and PowerBook computers."
    http://www.morphos-team.net/releasenotes/3.0

    Maybe this amounts to something? Although I believe it still lacks the required card.resource.
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