[Wirelessdriver-support] Orinoco Gold + WallStreet PB + 10.2.3 + AirportExtreme = got it working

[Paul J. T. <pt...@ma...>]

I finally got it working this evening.

I was perusing Apple's Knowledge Base article on Airport Channel 
selection and overlap, # 58550. It occurred to me that the new 3.0 
version of Airport Admin Utility has a couple different features.

1. Mode - 3 options are given.  i) 802.11b Only, ii) 802.11b/g 
Compatible, and iii) 802.11g Only.  Obviously, the choice here depends 
on your clients.  I have 3 802.11b clients and may experiment with some 
802.11g clients in the future, so I chose ii).

2. Channel - options 1-11 are provided.  The default appeared to be 10.

What made my Orinoco card work with the Airport Extreme base station 
was a channel change.  As soon as I switched the channel from 10 to 1, 
the Orinoco client had *no* problem acquiring a DHCP supplied address 
from the base station.

Anyone have any idea as to why this made a difference?

Thanks for all the help and ideas.  I knew it was only a matter of time 
and permutations...

Paul Teeter
pt...@ma...