ryan is the supernicety wrote:
] ] In public hotspots, and other areas where WLAN is
] ] available, the GC79 PC Card provides you with maximum
] ] speeds of up to 11 Mbps. When WLAN is not available,
] ] select GPRS/HSCSD instead.
]
] mmmm..... first GPRS/802.11 card I have seen. that's what I
] am talking about. would have been a good card to test that
] implementation decius and abaddon were working on.

of course, they'd have had to write a driver first...

Unsurprisingly, it's Windows 98SE/ME/2K/XP only.

That being said, i agree that this is cool, if only for supporting people with older laptops. LOTS of new computers are building the wireless into the system, so, perhaps a combo card becomes less useful as time goes on.

I just want the service to cover a reasonable area and not cost nine trillion dollars to use.

inignoct wrote:
] ryan is the supernicety wrote:
] ] ] In public hotspots, and other areas where WLAN is
] ] ] available, the GC79 PC Card provides you with maximum
] ] ] speeds of up to 11 Mbps. When WLAN is not available,
] ] ] select GPRS/HSCSD instead.
] ]
] ] mmmm..... first GPRS/802.11 card I have seen. that's what I
] ] am talking about. would have been a good card to test that
] ] implementation decius and abaddon were working on.

Actually, it turns out that Ericson funded a research scientist to work on the problem and he has RFCs that basically implement our idea. He called it HIP. Its frustrating, but thats the life of an engineer.

]
] of course, they'd have had to write a driver first...

Actually, I'm down for writing a driver for this. I've been thinking about learning something about drivers, and I've wanted to hack around with GPRS. This is a way to kill two brids with one stone...