I tried this once with a Orinoco Gold card and it didn't work. But a couple
of people say they got it to work so I'm not giving up yet. Here are some
of my observations from this thread:
Old WaveLan Silver wireless card (Hiroshi san mentions the OEM Lucent card)
Airport v1.2
Ad Hoc (peer-to-peer) mode
Channel 3
Laurent makes some good points (see below) about this stuff being very
specific. It was hard-coded to work with the setup that the author had and
is not very versatile. I also believe that Airport v1.2 is important. I'm
hoping that I have the old airport software on a backup disk from a year or
so ago. Now I just have to find an old Lucent card.
Perhaps one of the folks out there who has this working can be VERY specific
about the setup that works. And then change one thing at a time until it
breaks. This is very time-consuming but it the only way to figure this
stuff out.
C-YA!
Gerry
On 1/21/02 8:53 PM, "Laurent Daudelin" <nemesys_at_cox.rr.com> wrote:
>
> on 21/01/02 23:02, ianfoster at ianfoster_at_mac.com wrote:
>
>>> This is the website where I got my driver:
>>> http://www.ff.iij4u.or.jp/~ngc/eng/newtwave.htm
>>> =20
>>> My wireless PC card is a Lucent Technologies WaveLan Silver Turbo 11MB.
>>> It is not one of the new Orinoco Silver cards (though, in truth, I don't
>>> know how much different they'd be since it's still Lucent). My card
>>> dates from 1998. It is 802.11 compliant and has a P/N of 012372A.
>>> =20
>>> Jim
>>> =20
>> Thanks Jim,
>>
>> I did have the driver - I have the same card but it is a 012372C - its the
>> 2001 model, so maybe a slight change.
>> Anyway, it doesn=B9t recognise it and doesn=B9t do anything.
>> Ah well!
>
> I think that Paul Guyot did explain what's happening here. Roughly, any
> driver will be asked what kind of cards it can recognize. When a card is
> inserted, there is a string that is returned by the card to the OS as the
> product ID, or something like that. If no driver match that string, the card
> will be reported as unrecognized. The current alpha driver only recognizes a
> specific, 1st generation WaveLan card. It only works in the "ad-hoc" mode,
> i.e. no base station. And, although I'm not 100% sure, I would guess that it
> won't work with any encryption active.
>
> -Laurent.
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