Re: [NTLK] Wireless cards

From: Laurent Daudelin (laurent.daudelin_at_verizon.net)
Date: Thu Dec 19 2002 - 23:55:57 EST

on 19/12/02 23:33, Michael at mzb_at_sympatico.ca wrote:

> on 19/12/2002 5:16 PM, Laurent Daudelin at laurent_daudelin_at_fanniemae.com
> wrote:
>
>> I used an ORiNOCO card from Agere/Lucent in my previous laptop, a
>> Wallstreet. When I got my Pismo, I recycled the card into my Newton where it
>> has been working fine.
>
> What do you use for a driver on the Mac? Is there an OSX driver? Like the
> original poster, I've been looking around for a wireless card to use in both
> a PowerBook G4 and a Newton, but I'm finding that nobody includes Mac
> drivers except Asante (but I don't know if their cards work in the Newt.) I
> must have missed something somewhere.
>
> If the ORiNOCO works in both, I'll get one. If it works in a Mac, does that
> mean that so would any card with the same chipset?

Under OS 9, I was just using the AirPort driver. After installing AirPort,
whenever I was inserting my ORiNOCO card, it was showing up on the desktop
as a genuine Apple AirPort card.

Different story on OS X. The same card there isn't recognized by the AirPort
software. However, there is a free wireless driver that was working fine in
OS X when I used it on my Wallstreet, before getting the Pismo.

-Laurent. 

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