HardwareComparison | IntersilPrism | Atheros
Successor of the IntersilPrism Chipset. It supports 1, 2, 5.5 and 11 Mbps. Specs: http://www.intersil.com/design/prism/ser-pii-11mbps.asp Intersil Chipsets: PrismI, Prism2, Prism3 (ISL37101P)
Intersil has free software for examining and manipulating the Prism2 chipset. The types of software features are described at Intersil Prism2 Software webpage. Another source of Prism software is also at SenaoCard where links to the Prism Test software is located.
Intersil has some Prism WLAN application notes available at their website. Some topics of interest are: Designing 5V Tolerant PCMCIA Radio Cards, Test Plan for Prism Radio Card, Multipath Measurement in Wireless LANs, Processing Gain for Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum Communication Systems, Introduction to the Wireless Distribution System (WDS) and Features.
Intersil has some informative technical briefs are also available on the following topics: Electronic Emissions Notices, Measurement of WLAN Receiver Sensitivity, MBPS Radio Reference Design, Brief Tutorial on Spread Spectrum and Packet Radio.
HostAp (http://hostap.epitest.fi/): (used to be http://www.epitest.fi/Prism2/, http://people.ssh.com/jkm/Prism2/) (Bridging Access-Point for Linux, Host-AP)
OrinocoDriver: only basic support for Prism 2
AP-Firmware for linux-wlan-ng: T10003C7, Prism2DL (This might damage your card! Better use the HostApMode drivers) as well as looking over HostAPCards.
Tools:
Prism2Dump bsd software
Cards Using the prism2 chipset:
DlinkCard (DLink DWL-650)
EnGenius (EL-2011 CD)
CompaqCard (Compaq WL 100)
Cards Using the Prism2.5 chipset:
Senao SL-2511CD (dual internal diversity antenna version)
Senao SL-2511CD EXT2 (dual external antenna version)
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