!! Name of hardware

An [802.11b] PCMCIA card.



[Lucent] have made a variety of 802.11 cards over the last few years.  Starting out with 2Mbit 802.11 DSSS and going via some proprietry 5 and 8Mbit so-called Turbo cards, their [WaveLAN] range pretty much dominated the industry until the [802.11b] standard and the PRISM (and later [PRISM-II]) chipsets allowed cheap cards without huge R&D.



Lucent's Microelectronics division was spun off as (http://www.agere.com Agere Systems) and they took the renamed (http://www.orinocowireless.com Orinoco) range of 802.11 wireless products with them.



The Silver card is the export model.  There is also an [OrinocoGold] card which has better encryption, but is far less commonly available.



!!! Vitals

* __Manufacturer :__ Agere Systems

* __Model :__ Orinoco Silver

* __Type :__ PCMCIA Card

* __External Antenna Jack:__

* __Chipset:__ Hermes

* __Power :__ 15dBm (= 30mW, according to PowerAndGainToDecibels)

* __Recieve Sensitivity :__ 11Mb/s = -82dBm, 5.5Mb/s = -87dBm, 2Mb/s = -91dBm, 1Mb/s = -94dBm

* __Drivers URL :__

* __Available New :__

* __Average Price :__

* __Vitals last updated :__ 7th July 2002



!! Official Dribble



!! Pictures

{http://www.resonantnetworks.com/images/Orinoco%20Silver.jpg Orinoco Silver}



!! Operating Systems

!!! Linux

There are several [Linux] drivers for the Orinoco cards:

* David Gibson's 2.4 kernel driver, orinoco_cs

* the Lucent wavelan_cs driver

* the wvlan_cs driver from the PCMCIA-CS package



See the (http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/#howto WirelessHOWTO) for full details



!!! MacOS

(ftp://ftp.orinocowireless.com/pub/software/ORiNOCO/PC_Card/MacOS/ MacOS)



!!! Windows

(ftp://ftp.orinocowireless.com/pub/software/ORiNOCO/PC_Card/win_2000/ Windows 2000)

(ftp://ftp.orinocowireless.com/pub/software/ORiNOCO/PC_Card/win_95/ Windows 95)

(ftp://ftp.orinocowireless.com/pub/software/ORiNOCO/PC_Card/win_98/ Windows 98)

(ftp://ftp.orinocowireless.com/pub/software/ORiNOCO/PC_Card/win_98_ME/ Windows 98/ME)

(ftp://ftp.orinocowireless.com/pub/software/ORiNOCO/PC_Card/win_ME/ Windows ME)

(ftp://ftp.orinocowireless.com/pub/software/ORiNOCO/PC_Card/win_NT/ Windows NT)

(ftp://ftp.orinocowireless.com/pub/software/ORiNOCO/PC_Card/win_XP/ Windows XP)

(ftp://ftp.orinocowireless.com/pub/software/ORiNOCO/PC_Card/win_ce/ Windows ce)



!! Firmware

It may be possible to upgrade this card to 128 bit encryption, effectively making this an OrinocoGold - read this post to (http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/2001q4/001269.html nycwireless).



!! Misc Notes