Re: [NTLK] two questions

On Aug 26, 2007, at 7:16 PM, Steven Scotten wrote:

> On Aug 26, 2007, at 6:11 PM, Sonny Hung wrote:
>
>> No, though the Lucent Card is seen as an Airport Card when used in a
>> PowerBook Pismo the rever regarding a Airport Card in a Newton is not
>> functional unfortunately.
>>
>
>
> Hmm. According to Wikipedia, they are the same card:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirPort#AirPort_Cards
>
> AirPort 802.11b Card
>
> The original model, known as simply AirPort Card was a re-branded
> Lucent WaveLAN Bronze PC card, in a modified housing that lacked the
> integrated antenna. It was designed to be capable of being user-
> installable.
>
>
>
> ...of course that part about lacking an integrated antenna sort of
> puts a damper on things, doesn't it?

The part where Wikipedia is wrong also put a damper on it. The
bronze card didn't support WEP, while the Apple airport card
supported 128 bit WEP. So if anything it was a Gold card.

Marty

PS I am using an old stripped out ibook G3/600 with a wavelan gold
card in it as a server here...

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