On Wednesday, January 15, 2003, at 05:29 PM, David Deckert wrote: > Cathy thanks for the info about the wireless. Wow, and with > MacTCP-to-Jag compatibility as well. I would have given up long ago and > installed Open Transport 1.1.2 on the 7.5.3 machine, extra RAM usage be > damned.
It was cool seeing the 5300cs pop up in the G4 iMac's (OSX 10.2.3) network, to say the least ; ) > > Do I understand you to say that the older WaveLan software is still > floating around, but the cards are generally gone, and that newer > versions of the card (Orinco/Lucent) might only work with later > versions of (what?) software? Sort of. The old Lucent brand WaveLAN gold and silver cards were re- branded some time ago. I think the name and/or companies handling it have changed about 4 times. Apparently, the Orinco cards are identical to the WaveLAN except for badging, but Orinco drivers (on Proxim's site, I believe) state the minimum for running the card are OS9 (or something higher than what I wanted to run on the 5300cs) whereas the old Lucent drivers state compatibility down to System 7.5.2 and a PB down to the 190. The old Lucent drivers are available on versiontracker. Now, if you find an Orinco card (which seem to be cheap and plentiful), from what I've read on the list, it should work with the old Lucent drivers, but I never tested it so I couldn't guarantee it'd work. BTW, the Lucent WaveLAN silver is exactly what's in my original ABS. I don't know what's inside the new ones. I imagine if you could find a dead ABS on ebay (dead from the capacitor problem) for cheap, you could pull the card from it and use it just fine. The previous Apple AirPort cards were also manufactured by Lucent, which is why you see in this thread that AirPort drivers will work for them, as well. The only difference is that the AirPort card has no built- in antenna. HTH, Cathy -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
