[NTLK] AirPort Express and Newton

Forrest newton_phoenix at mindspring.com
Sun Jul 12 17:47:32 EDT 2020


I don’t believe that is correct. For the INTERNET connection to work, that is true. To my knowledge only Hiroshi’s 802.11b WaveLAN app and I think possibly Paul Guyot’s ATA Support app are required, but the latter might only be for storage cards.

Mahalo,
Forrest 

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> On Jul 12, 2020, at 12:52 PM, Dennis Swaney <romad at nvwisp.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks, but I have a vague memory that in order for WiFi to work there were
> two or three packages that had to be installed on the Newton in a strict
> particular order. I need to know the following:
> 1. a list of those packages
> 2. where to download the packages
> 3. the particular sequence or order in which to install each package
> 
> Sincerely,
> Dennis B. Swaney
> 
> "Cogito Ergo Mac"
> 
> 
>> On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 12:29 PM arceeHS <arceehs at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Newton Wireless Cards
>> 
>> 1. Hiroshi Noguchi wrote his Newton wireless driver based on a Lucent
>> WaveLan PCMCIA Card. The Lucent Model Number for this card is
>> PC24E-H-FC.
>> 
>> 2. The WaveLan card is based on Lucent’s Hermes chipset. It meets, by
>> definition, 801.2b Wi-Fi standards. The Hermes chipset is the key
>> consideration in whether or not any wireless card will work with
>> Noguchi-san’s driver.
>> 
>> 3. In addition to the various supplier’s names used during the
>> corporate disintegration of Lucent Technologies (Lucent, Avaya,
>> Agere), the Hermes chipset was used in cards with a variety of other
>> supplier names - Dell, Buffalo, Farallon, Compaq come readily to mind
>> - there are others. Whether these cards were made by Lucent for the
>> other suppliers labels or made by them under license is irrelevant
>> here.
>> 
>> 4. Also, the Lucent-based supplier names used a second version of the
>> Hermes chipset in ORiNOCO model-designated cards. Some of these cards,
>> but not all, carry Model Number PC24E-11-FC/R.
>> 
>> 5. Most all of the other suppliers also had wireless PCMCIA cards
>> based on technology other than the Hermes chipset, ofttimes with the
>> same card name and nothing more than a different version
>> letter/number. The most common (but not universal) identifier for the
>> Hermes cards usually has some or all the Lucent PC24E-H-FC or
>> PC24E-11-FC/R model number.
>> 
>> 6. The most definitive indicator that a wireless card, independent of
>> the marketing drivel on the card or in the supplier’s literature, will
>> work in a Newton with with Noguchi-san’s wireless driver is the FC ID
>> number that is found on every wireless card. Here, either FCC IDs
>> IMRWLPCE24H or IMRWLPCE2411R is required.
>> 
>> arceehs
>> 
>>> On 7/11/20, Dennis Swaney <romad at nvwisp.com> wrote:
>>> I had an Enterasys RoamAbout 802.11 DS but never could get it to work
>>> before; maybe I'll try again. Do you have a link to the required software
>>> AND the correct install sequence, Pawel? I just went searching for them
>> on
>>> my iMac and can't find them either in my iMac's Newton folder or in the
>>> Newton folder in my web browser bookmarks.
>>> 
>>> Sincerely,
>>> Dennis B. Swaney
>>> 
>>> "Cogito Ergo Mac"
>> -SNIP-
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