Uh-oh. I think I'm in trouble if I'm having difficulty with the early steps.
Encouraged by others' good results, I ordered an Orinico Gold PC Card. My first step was to download the Alpha2 driver, which I installed on my MP 2100 using NCU. I assume I only had to run NCU, and that merely finding an icon called LucentWaveLANa2 in my Extensions drawer was a sign of success. However, when I insert the card, I get the following message: "There is a problem with this card. (Newton cannot recognize this type of card.)" Also, when I restart, I get the following message: "Unable to activate Lucent WaveLAN since Newton Device Drivers are not in the system." Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong? > From: Dave Fleishman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (NewtonList) > Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 20:45:49 -0800 > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (NewtonList) > Subject: More WaveLAN success!!! > > Well, folks, it appears the holy grail has been found! I sat in the > bathroom with my still-broken upgraded MP2000 while my kids took > their bath tonight, and the water was cold when I finally picked my > jaw up off the floor. I spent a half-hour, WIRELESSLY retrieving > e-mail, surfing the web, and doing a very lengthy backup of my Newt > with NCU. > > Basic details: the Alpha2 driver found at > http://www.ff.iij4u.or.jp/~ngc/eng/newtwave.htm > works with my Orinoco Silver, an iBook running 10.1.3, NCU running > under Classic 9.2.2, and an original Airport base station. I can > provide further details, but I suspect we will see a run on the > wireless cards on e-bay now! I set up the connection as a DHCP > connection, obtaining an IP number from the Airport, and voila! On > the internet! Very, very fast, too. It appears about the same speed > as 10BaseT ethernet, but I have no utilities to determine this. My > previous posts reported being able to connect peer-to-peer to my > iBook, but this time, it's direct to the Airport, iBook not > necessary. The only thing I could find wrong, if you can call it > wrong, is every time I connected anew, it assigned me a new IP > address, one number greater than the last time. It may have more to > do with the release of a DHCP lease on the Airport than anything to > do with the Newton, though. Who cares, though. > > It's very strange walking around the house with my Newton, being able > to check e-mail, do a Google search, and flip channels on my TV! It > has made my decision to stick with my Newt all the more sure. I will > be using Palm Desktop under Classic until there is a way to synch the > Carbonized version to the Newt (if ever), but I like the Classic > version better, as the Carbon version is very slow to type in. > > I'll field questions now, but thanks are in order to that Japanese > developer who has spent what I'm sure is an enormous amount of time > working on this driver. > > Dave > -- > > -- > NewtonList is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... > > Shop buy.com and save. <http://lowendmac.com/ad/buy.com.html> > > Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> > > NewtonList info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/newton.html> > Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/newtonlist%40mail.maclaunch.com/> > > Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! > <http://www.applelinks.com> > -- NewtonList is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Shop buy.com and save. <http://lowendmac.com/ad/buy.com.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> NewtonList info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/newton.html> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/newtonlist%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
