[NTLK] Cabletron Systems wifi driver?

[Morgan Aldridge]

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Todd Naber <applguy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Just a quick question to the list. I know everyone has been kind to tell me
> that Lucent WaveLan cards are what works in a Newt. Today I discovered a
> Cabletron Systems (now owned by Enterasys) 802.11b wifi card (p/n:
> CSIBD-AJ-128) in a drawer at home. It says its a 5v card and looking at a
> few websites I found a link to win95/98/me/xp drivers.
>  Heres the question; where do you get newton drivers for a PC card? Can I
> use my 5v wifi card with 98/xp drivers on the Newton? I contacted Lucent and
> Enterasys and both said they've never released a Newton driver for their
> cards.

The only drivers available are Hiroshi Noguchi's WaveLAN drivers.
Download the source code from the following site and it includes a
pre-compiled Newton package which does not require registration:

<http://www.drvlabo.jp/old/eng/newtwave.htm>

Some additional cards are supported by installing Paul Guyot's
MoreWifiCards which builds upon the aforementioned WaveLAN drivers:

<http://www.kallisys.com/>

If the Cabletron/Enterasys card is based on the same chipset used in
the Lucent/WaveLAN/ORiNOCO WaveLAN cards, there's a possibility that
it'll work. It's not on Hiroshi Noguchi's list of supported cards, but
start with just his WaveLAN drivers then add MoreWifiCards if it
doesn't work.

I personally use a Buffalo/Melco WLI-PCM-L11G. It works well and was
only discontinued a few years ago instead of many, many years ago.
There are options out there.

Morgan Aldridge
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