> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 10:25:15 +1000
> From: Jay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Lucent WaveLan
>
> Well, my WaveLan card has finally arrived, and I've been through a bit of
> bizarre testing and am hoping someone can help, althout the situ's rather
> unique.
>
> I have an iMac DV SE running 9.0, AirPort 1.1 and with the Software Base
> Station.
>
> My PB 2400 is running 8.6 however. According to the Read Me's for AirPort
> 1.1, it now supports the Lucent and Farallon cards on PowerBook G3 Series
> laptops running OS 9, OR... iMac's, iBook's and G4's running 8.6 or
> higher. I suspect the reason these machines are allowed to run with 8.6,
> is because they all came with that hybrid of 8.6 and 9. One of the major
> differences was 8.6 on those machines has the newer 2-extension style
> Open Transport, whereas the original still has the six files.
>
> Well, of course, the installer won't even CONSIDER running on a 2400
> running OS 8.6, so I used trusty Tome Viewer to pull out the stuff, only
> to find that OT 2.6 is also included in the Tome. I had noticed on my
> iMac DV when I installed AirPort 1.1, it upgraded OT, so I backedup the
> original 8.6 OT extensions on the 2400, and dropped in the new ones....
> everything worked fine! So, I have a 2400 running 8.6 with Open Transport
> 2.6 and AirPort 1.1.
>
> Now the testing... It appears that my Farallon Ethernet card must not
> only be disabled, but removed for my machine for it to recognize the
> WaveLAN card. Either way the Finder recognizes and mounts it, but only
> when the Farallon isn't present does the AirPort control strip and
> application recognize it and the lights on the WaveLAN card light up.
> Nonetheless, after figuring that out, everything else worked on the first
> try! Woohoo!
>
> Now, the problem... Once it has been used, I cannot eject it due to the
> "This PC Card cannot be ejected because it is in use." I maintain a
> Location (via Location Mgr.) which sets both AppleTalk and TCP/IP to IrDA
> and Inactive. This is how I eject my Farallon card, and just save juice
> when on the road. But, even if I go to that, and 'Turn AirPort Off' (via
> Control Strip), I still can't eject the WaveLAN. I did notice that after
> leaving TCP/IP on Inactive for about 2 minutes (the usual amount of time
> for TCP/IP to naturally unload if its ACTIVE and 'load only when
> needed'), I was able to eject it. This only occured once, and the fact
> that TCP/IP was set to Inactive anyway still vexes me.
I'm using 8.6, but with the Lucent drivers (v.4.x, downloadable from
lucent.com). No problems.
I also have a Farallon Ethernet card, but I've never tried to use
both at once. I have a modem card in the other slot, and I leave it
there. The bonus to doing things this way is that the AppleTalk and
TCP/IP control panels seem to identify interfaces by slot, not by the
card that's in the slot. So using the same slot for both "network"
cards minimizes config changes, for me.
I sometimes get the "can't eject" message. Sleep and re-wake fixes it
- and maybe when it doesn't come up, it's because I've already been
inactive for a while.
Other notes:
- wireless AppleTalk is slow - maybe slower than LocalTalk.
- I use the AirPort as a wireless bridge, because using DHCP/NAT
dropped my telnet sessions after an hour or so. DHCP lease renewal?
- DHCP/NAT also seemed slower than wireless bridging: max 50 kbps
vs. max 800 kbps, or something along those lines.
Those last two points might well be different with the software base
station, or with OT 2.x.
-- Mike
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