On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 19:40 +0000, Barry Samuels wrote:
It's the WG511 v2 which is made in China. I bought it because the WG511 was so well supported in Linux and then discovered that they had changed the innards with this one and Prism54 no longer worked with it.
This is one of my biggest grievances with hardware manufacturers at the moment, why oh why they change the fundamental design of a product without changing the model number or even adding a revision code to it is beyond me. It is totally unfair that customers have to play Russian roulette if they need a particular chipset for whatever reason.
It's not just for Linux support that this is a problem, anybody deploying machines from a system image can run into confusing driver/hardware version issues because certain (discrete) hardware revisions only work with certain driver revisions.