[Madwifi-users] Altheros Orinoco and Lucent Orinoco

[Brei, M. <mb...@me...>]

Hello,

I have a question about the difference between the 2 Orinoco cards.  I
have a Proxim Orinoco with the Atheros chipset but I see a lot of
reference to the Orinoco with a Lucent chipset.  Are these the same
cards aside from the chipset?  If so, why did they change?  I'm new to
802.11 so I'm trying to get some history and figure out if I need to get
another card. =20

I do have my Proxim 8740 (Orinoco Gold b/g combo) working ok with
yesterdays CVS, but it seems a bit buggy.  I can't set my transmit power
level (which I know the card supports) and for some reason Kismet
updates real slow.  Netstumbler picks up my AP in the house within a
second or 2 of running the program, but Kismet takes about 3 minutes.
This may very well be a Kismet/user problem since I'm using the 3.1.0
CVS for the Atheros support and have only been playing with wireless for
about a week.

If anyone has any advice I'd love to hear it.


Thanks,
Matt