sumarise ppc problems

[Matthew Garrett]

On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 09:44 -0500, Eric Dunbar wrote:

> FYI The Airport and Airport Extreme slots are merely modified PC(MCIA)
> slots. On my PowerBook G3 "Pismo" (the last black PowerBook) the
> Airport slot is on top of the PC(MCIA) slot (which I don't use
> because... everything else hooks up through FireWire (exactly how
> Apple predicted that the vast majority of computer users would use
> their computers ;-). AFAIK the Airport slots are merely smaller PCMCIA
> slots with some cost savings in the circuitry.

The Airport slot is approximately PCMCIA, but the Airport Extreme one is
somewhat closer to PCI. The Broadcom chip (no, Broadcom won't release
specs) is also available on PCI cards - some of these work quite happily
with the MacOS Airport drivers.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org