Re: [NTLK] Wavelan Silver Turbo

From: Greg Hankins <ghankins_at_mac.com>
Date: Tue Dec 04 2007 - 11:56:51 EST

Thanks much, Morgan. Looks like I have a Turbo Silver coming in, so
your advice will help. Thanks for the download reference as well. I
pulled it down and have it waiting on the card's arrival.
Cheers!

Greg
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On Dec 4, 2007, at 9:11 AM, Morgan Aldridge wrote:

> On Dec 4, 2007 8:13 AM, Greg Hankins <ghankins@mac.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi All.
>> Anyone using the Lucent Wavelan Turbo Silver (as opposed to just
>> plain old silver) successfully. I see on Hirochi's page that it has
>> been reported to have worked, though there's no info on WEP.
>
> The Lucent WaveLAN Turbo Silver only supports 40/64-bit WEP, not the
> 104/128-bit WEP which is usually used. Unfortunately, you'll likely
> only be able to connect to unencrypted networks unless you
> specifically configure your own network for 40/64-bit WEP.
>
>> I'm a bit confused about Hirochi's drivers: the page mentions some
>> additional features in the registered version, but also notes that
>> registration is closed. Does the version downloadable from his page
>> in fact include the features that once required registration?
>
> I believe that the regular download still requires registration after
> 30-days to keep using the full functionality. Fortunately, he recently
> released the source code at
> <http://www.ff.iij4u.or.jp/~ngc/data/NewtonWaveLAN_source.zip> which
> contains a compiled version of his WaveLAN drivers with the
> registration stripped out. So try using that one instead (although
> technically you should get the full functionality for the first
> 30-days anyway).
>
> Morgan Aldridge
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