R. Geoffrey Newbury wrote:

>While in a Staples yesterday, I noticed that Netgear has a USB based 811g
>wifi adapter. Instead of plugging a Wifi adapter into a PC or PCI slot,
>you plug it into a USB 2.0 socket..
>
>QUESTION: Does anyone know if these units will work under OS/2? The major
>advantage point here being that these units are 'G' compatible and
>therefore much faster than the presently available 811b OS2 compatible
>Artem PC cards..
>
>Offhand, I would think that the USB transport would completely hide the
>wifi side from the computer side: the computer only need know USB
>2.0....BUT.....
>Has anyone tried one of these?
>
>  
>
AFAIK, the usb nic cards have to be kawasaki based chips to work.
 From the readme:
2.5.1  Hardware
USBETHR.OS2 driver is designed to work with any Kawasaki LSI KL5KUSB101
based USB Ethernet adapter, however specific vendor/device IDs must be
specified during installation.
Andy

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