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NAME OF HARDWARE
An 802.11b [1] PCMCIA card.
Lucent [2] 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 [3] range
pretty much dominated the industry until the 802.11b [4] standard and
the PRISM (and later PRISM-II [5]) chipsets allowed cheap cards
without huge R&D.
Lucent's Microelectronics division was spun off as Agere Systems [6]
and they took the renamed Orinoco [7] range of 802.11 wireless
products with them.
The Silver card is the export model. There is also an OrinocoGold [8]
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 [9])
* 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
OPERATING SYSTEMS
LINUX
There are several Linux [10] 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 WirelessHOWTO [11] for full details
MACOS
MacOS [12]
WINDOWS
Windows 2000 [13]
Windows 95 [14]
Windows 98 [15]
Windows 98/ME [16]
Windows ME [17]
Windows NT [18]
Windows XP [19]
Windows ce [20]
FIRMWARE
It may be possible to upgrade this card to 128 bit encryption,
effectively making this an OrinocoGold [21] - read this post to
nycwireless [22].
MISC NOTES
Links:
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[1] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?802.11b
[2] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?Lucent
[3] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?Wavelan
[4] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?802.11b
[5] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?PRISM-II
[6] http://www.agere.com
[7] http://www.orinocowireless.com
[8] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?OrinocoGold
[9] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?PowerAndGainToDecibels
[10] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?Linux
[11] http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/#howto
[12]
http://melbournewireless.org.au/ftp://ftp.orinocowireless.com/pub/software/ORiNOCO/PC_Card/MacOS/
[13]
http://melbournewireless.org.au/ftp://ftp.orinocowireless.com/pub/software/ORiNOCO/PC_Card/win_2000/
[14]
http://melbournewireless.org.au/ftp://ftp.orinocowireless.com/pub/software/ORiNOCO/PC_Card/win_95/
[15]
http://melbournewireless.org.au/ftp://ftp.orinocowireless.com/pub/software/ORiNOCO/PC_Card/win_98/
[16]
http://melbournewireless.org.au/ftp://ftp.orinocowireless.com/pub/software/ORiNOCO/PC_Card/win_98_ME/
[17]
http://melbournewireless.org.au/ftp://ftp.orinocowireless.com/pub/software/ORiNOCO/PC_Card/win_ME/
[18]
http://melbournewireless.org.au/ftp://ftp.orinocowireless.com/pub/software/ORiNOCO/PC_Card/win_NT/
[19]
http://melbournewireless.org.au/ftp://ftp.orinocowireless.com/pub/software/ORiNOCO/PC_Card/win_XP/
[20]
http://melbournewireless.org.au/ftp://ftp.orinocowireless.com/pub/software/ORiNOCO/PC_Card/win_ce/
[21] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?OrinocoGold
[22]
http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/2001q4/001269.html
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