What are the Intersil Reference Drivers and what are they used for? Why would you use drivers other than the provided ones?
Intersil is a semiconductor company that makes the Prism chipset used in many CF WiFi cards including the ones listed above from Ambicom, D-Link, Netgear, and SMC. Intersil created some very simple drivers to operate their product and to serve as a basis for the card manufacturer’s drivers. These drivers allow certain programs that are designed to work with WiFi cards to run even though the full manufacturer’s drivers may not. Programs such as Airscanner, Cirond’s PocketWiNc and pocketwarrior all will work with the Intersil Prism drivers but not with certain manufacturer’s drivers.Most of these programs provide utility to your Axim with a WiFi, but in some cases, the same or similar utilities may be provided on the card manufacturer’s drivers. Also, while Intersil provided the reference drivers up through version 9 as freeware, they no longer do that with the current versions. They have also removed the previous free versions although these can still be found with a little digging. Alt
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