People can't follow simple instructions. Let me clarify a few things:
1) This driver will ONLY work on Windows 2000. (Not Windows XP, NOT
Windows 95, 98, or ME). It will ONLY work on Windows 2000.
2) This firmware upgrade will ONLY work on ORIGINAL ORINOCO SILVER
cards. (Not Avaya, Agere, Buffalo, Proxim, Dell or any other type of
"rebadged" card).
>Tried under XP and ME. Although I only had a rebadged card to try with
>(Avaya).
I can understand why it didn't work. See above.
As stated in the read me, the drivers are WINDOWS 2000 drivers. That
means... they're WINDOWS 2000 drivers. Not XP drivers, not Windows 95,
or Windows 98, or Windows ME drivers. THEY'RE WINDOWS 2000 drivers.
If you read the documentation, you'd understand that. If you can't
follow simple instructions (step by step), then I would NOT recommend
trying to re-flash your card.
Next, it will ONLY work on original Orinoco Silver cards. NOT Avaya,
NOT Agere, NOT Buffalo, and NOT any other type of re-badged card.
IS that clear enough?
The reason for this, is the "driver hack" will NOT recognize those
cards, and WON'T WORK. Since it won't allow you to reflash those cards
(simply because they're the wrong base firmware).
The Orinoco drivers will ONLY allow you to re-flash Orinoco cards. If
you want to go out, and create a hack for EVERY type of firmware (and
re-badged card) then that's fine. Please do.
For now, as it says... it will ONLY work with Orinoco Silver cards, and
with Windows 2000.
I apologize if you can't follow simple instructions, or that you fail to
understand that installing native Windows 2000 drivers on a Windows ME,
or Windows 98 box might be bad for your system. I know for a fact that
the drivers won't work, and doing it will probably make your system
unstable. (Don't blame me, blame Microsoft).
It's pretty simple. Get an ORIGINAL Orinoco Silver card, and get
Windows 2000, and then follow the instructions. First you replace the
standard driver, with the "hacked driver". All that does is make your
Windows machine "think" that you have an Orinoco Gold card in your
computer. When in reality, it's just a Silver card. This allows you to
re-flash the card with a version of the Orinoco Gold firmware. (Use the
version included in the Zip).
Once you upgrade the card, next uninstall the "hacked" driver from your
computer. Then download the latest Orinoco drivers from the website.
Then insert your new "reflashed" card. It should now be recognized as
an Orinoco Gold card.
Now you can do whatever you want with the card. If you want to install
the LATEST firmware, you can download it off the Orinoco website, and
even upgrade the firmware again.
But you NEED to follow these instructions STEP BY STEP, and DO NOT try
to SKIP steps, or IGNORE steps, or make foolish assumptions that "all
Orinoco/Avaya/Agere cards are the same". Well NO THEY ARE NOT. Yes,
the hardware may be the same, but the firmware is different.
Just because you have a Dell card (which may be a re-badged Orinoco
card) DOES NOT mean that you'll be able to flash it with Orinoco
firmware. This is because of the drivers/firmware! So in that case,
you would need to hack a Dell driver into thinking that the card had a
real "Orinoco Gold Card" firmware on it. (Good luck)
Each card has a different firmware, and that is why it WILL NOT work on
re-badged cards. Read the title "ORINOCO flashing". It doesn't say
"AGERE/AVAYA/BUFALLO reflashing". If you have one of those cards, plain
and simple... it WON'T work.
That doesn't mean the software doesn't work. It just means that it
WON'T WORK with your card. That is not a software problem, it's a
problem with the hacked driver (working with the firmware of your card).
The hacked Windows 2000 Orinoco driver simply won't support any other
firmware versions OTHER THAN the original Orinoco Silver cards.
Please understand this. People post messages to the list all the time
saying "Isn't an Avaya card the same as an Orinoco card?" Well yes, and
no. The hardware is identical. The firmware's are different. Most
computers will recognize the Avaya/Agere/Buffalo/Proxim cards as Orinoco
cards. But the hacked driver (which is a hacked Windows 2000 Orinoco
Gold driver) will ONLY work on Orinoco Gold/Silver cards. NOT any other
firmware. The reasoning behind it, is simple... the original program,
(written by Orinoco) checks the firmware of the card, before re-flashing
it. The hacked driver, fools the software into thinking that the
Orinoco Silver card is in fact an Orinoco Gold card, so now the program
will allow you to reflash the card.
Now if you DO ANYTHING other than what it says (use an operating system
OTHER THAN Windows 2000, then the driver will NOT work, nor am I
responsible for the problems you would even have trying to load a
Windows 2000 driver on Windows 95, 98, ME, or XP). It doesn't mean that
the driver doesn't work, it just means that you can't follow simple
instructions.
Take a good look at the card you're trying to re-flash. If it doesn't
clearly say "ORINOCO SILVER" on it, then don't bother trying to use it.
It won't work. Don't be curious, and don't try it. It WILL NOT work.
Plain and simple.
Don't cry because YOU decided that an Avaya card is the same thing as an
Orinoco card. No it ISN'T! All of the rebadged cards have a different
firmware on them (and the hacked driver WILL NOT WORK).
If you don't have an Original Orinoco Silver card, then this will not
work.
Thank-you,
Mark
P.S. There may be a newer version that works on XP, but I do not have
it. If you do get a copy of it, please drop me an E-mail, and I'll post
the newest/latest drivers.
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Tried under XP and ME. Although I only had a rebadged card to try with
(Avaya).
When I get a few minutes I'll contact the Paris list to see what version
of Windows they were using...
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Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 21:23:28 -0500
From: "Ari Bakst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [nycwireless] RE: Archives & Orinoco flashing
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Did you try using Windows 2000 ?
Here is the link previously posted to the list which has all English
instructions
http://www.nextechwireless.net/support/silvertogoldwindows.html
Now, I did not personally try this procedure, but I can tell you that in
my
experiance regarding Orinoco firmware updates the only version of
Windows
that consistently works is Windows 2000. I would suggest that whoever
wants
to update Orinoco firmware use Windows 2000. Has any NYCW member
succeeded
at upgrading silver to gold via the above method?
-Ari
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