Cool! I had no idea about this! (That probably went by when I still had
my 130 and wasn't interested at all in Ethernet on my Newt...)
It's also been added to my ever-growing collection of Ethernet drivers.
Now I've got to get my hands on one of these cards... anyone out there
selling a Proxim RangeLAN2 card and base station? :)
-----Victor Rehorst - victor@eddie.cis.uoguelph.ca | victor@torque.net------
--------President, Computer Science Club of the University of Guelph--------
-------Homepage & Newton stuff: http://eddie.cis.uoguelph.ca/~victor/-------
--"He's a sharp little fellow. Talented. Only a little nuts." -M. Dyomin--
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Kenneth Wong wrote:
> Try http://137.132.159.164/newtonmad/newton/modemdrv/ne2k/proxim.pkg
>
> Brought to you by NewtonMAD. Dead, but not really dead.
>
> "I'll be back".
>
> Kenneth
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Thomas McCain" <nstrngln@netdoor.com>
> To: <newtontalk@planetnewton.com>
> Sent: Saturday, December 04, 1999 2:34 AM
> Subject: Re: NTLK Driver for Lucent Wave Lan card
>
>
> > Hello,
> > On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Victor wrote
> >
> > >There is currently no newton driver available for any wireless ethernet
> > >card.
> >
> > There was a hack of a an ethernet driver that enabled the Proxim wireless
> > ethernet cards to work floating around last year. I may have a copy
> > somewhere, but someone else may have some actual use experience. I could
> > never afford the Proxim equipment.
> >
> > A Newton Wave Lan driver would be great though! I read a letter online
> > from a guy who claimed to have cracked open an Apple Airport Base and said
> > it mainly contained a PC card adaptor and a Wave Lan card. He even added
> > an external antenna and increased its range. If it could be done for the
> > Proxim card, hopefuly it can be done for the Wave Lan!
> >
> > tmccain
>
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