Is there any way to make the 3rd party rebranded cards work with the AirPort software? I've got both an IBM branded and a Cabletron branded WaveLAN card which appear to be identical to the 'real' Lucent WaveLAN cards.
The OEM cards (called WaveLAN or ORiNOCO) will work with Apple's AirPort drivers in OS 9 and appear to the Mac as though they are genuine AirPort cards. Additionally, ANY of the 3rd party WaveLAN-chipset cards (except the AirPort card) will work with the ORiNOCO 7.2 drivers under OS 9.
Maybe.
The cards are not actually identical. Every PC Card has a small set of information stored as HEX strings. This info tells the computer what the name of the card is, the company that manufactured it, it's version, and some other odds and ends. The 3rd party cards have different card names that aren't recognized by the AirPort driver. It may be possible to patch AirPort to get it to recognize these cards, however.
I've had 75% success with doing this so far. I've managed to get AirPort to recognize my PCWA-C150S as an AirPort PC Card, and I can select it in TCP/IP, but this seems only cosmetic. The card still doesn't actually connect to my base station.
But maybe you'll have better luck than I've had.
For more reading, check out this thread on AppleFritter. It discusses the hack in detail.
<http://www.applefritter.com/cgi-bin/YaBB/YaBB.pl?board=hacks;action=display;num=1076035912>
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