Re: [NTLK] wireless LAN access from an mp2k

From: Laurent Daudelin (laurent_daudelin_at_fanniemae.com)
Date: Fri Aug 24 2001 - 10:22:38 EDT

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On Friday, August 24, 2001, at 10:04 AM, doppler wrote:

> hi gang!
>
> i want to hook up my newt to one of the two available 802.11b cards
> (afaik,
> there are currently two compatible cards:
> - proxims range lan 2
> _ lucents waveLAN.
>
> is there any one who has tried this and can give me some buying
> advice? i
> have so far located the following pages of interest:
>
> http://www.proxim.com/products/rl2/7420.shtml
> http://www.proxim.com/products/rl2/7410.shtml
> http://www.lucent.com/products/subcategory/0,,CTID+2007-STID+10209-LOCL+1,
> 00
> .html
>
> i have noticed that the lucent cards are linked to orinoco series cards
> on
> the lucent website, so i wonder if anyone has succesfully conected a
> newton
> to a wireless lan with a lucent wavelan driver. (i have access to an
> orinococard, but it is not recognised by my newton)

The guy that wrote a few drivers for unsupported 3COM Ethernet cards did
release a beta driver for the ORiNOCO/Wavelan cards. As I understand it,
it works only in a peer-to-peer mode, so you cannot use it with an
AirPort base station. I don't think that anybody ever released a driver
for the Proxim cards.

I'm very slowly getting my feet wet in the Ethernet driver documentation
and, as I said before, my goal is to write a driver that will work with
a WaveLan/ORiNOCO card and an Apple AirPort Base Station, but don't hold
your breath...

-Laurent.

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