> From: Laurent Daudelin <nemesys_at_cox.rr.com>
> Reply-To: newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net
> Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 01:21:23 -0400
> To: NewtonTalk <newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net>
> Subject: Re: [NTLK] WaveLan Card Question
>
>
> on 22/05/02 21:36, Chris Ruprecht at chrup_at_earthlink.net wrote:
>
>> Question about an Orinoco WaveLan Card: I believe the driver for the
>> Silver Card is busy being developed. Is that limited to the Silver card
>> or does that work with the Gold card, too? Does anybody know, what the
>> difference between the two is?
>
> I think that the 2 cards are not the same, and the gold one won't work with
> the current developed driver. The author will have to build a specific
> driver, or someone could maybe come up with a patch.
Maybe it's just me, but I had the Alpha3 driver working with both a Gold and
a Turbo Bronze (8mbit top speed).
I'm actually not surprised that it works, though. The software interface is
the same on all three versions of the card, so one driver should work on the
Newton, the same as only one is needed on any other platform.
About the cards that haven't worked... my suspicion is that it is a question
of the version of firmware in the card. There is a joke about the WaveLAN
cards that any one you buy is virtually guaranteed to have out of date
firmware. In my case, both of my cards have Spring 2001 firmware (last time
I updated them); this is about a year old version, but was still many
versions ahead of what was on the cards when I got them. There was
apparently a major revision (which corresponded to the 6.0 release of the
Windows drivers) which was when full IEEE 802.11b/WiFi compatability was
implemented.
> IIRC, the gold card has better encryption than the silver one.
That's the difference, in a nutshell.
<<<john>>>
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