[Wirelessdriver-support] Lombard+Orinoco/Silver+10.2.4+AirportExtreme = success

[Tom & M. P. <mlp...@ea...>]

Hi,

I just wanted to report that I am successfully using the current 
1.0.0b5 WirelessDriver under MacOS X 10.2.4 with an Orinoco WaveLAN 
Silver PCMCIA card in my Lombard Powerbook to talk to a new Airport 
Extreme Base Station.

I foolishly bought the Orinico WaveLAN Silver card yesterday without 
realizing that it's not officially supported under MacOS X.  Orinoco 
tech support helpfully directed me to the WirelessDriver site at 
SourceForge.  Unfortunately, getting it going wasn't completetly 
automatic.

The first hangup was that the installer did not successfully install 
the driver, and there was no message warning me that there was a 
problem.  I had to untar the Archive.pax.gz file from the 
WirelessDriver.pkg bundle and install the WirelessDriver.kext file in 
the /System/Library/Extensions/ directory by hand.   Only after doing 
this (and rebooting) did a second interface ("Ethernet Adaptor (en1)") 
show up in Network preferences panel.  I found the hint that that might 
be necessary on the list archives here somewhere, but now I can't find 
the message that suggested this.  Whoever you are - thanks!

The second issue was in switching the Powerbook from a direct ethernet 
connection on my LAN to a wireless connection.  To connect to my LAN 
directly, I had been using manual configuration, using the fixed 
addresses that I have defined for my local 192.168.*.* network.  The 
Airport (I didn't realize at first) creates yet another local network - 
by default this is 10.0.1.*.  So, I had to assign the Airport base 
station the 192.168.*.* address I had been using for my Powerbook, and 
configure the Powerbook "Using DHCP", with the Airport Base Station's 
default 10.0.1.1 address as the router address.

I don't remember anymore exactly what sequence of restarts, etc., were 
necessary to get the BaseStation recognized in the Airport Admin 
Utility, but the aforementioned two items were the only non-obvious 
things I believe I had to do to get things running.  If anyone's 
struggling with this, let me know and I'll try to help.

A huge thanks to you guys who've provided this driver for us!  If there 
were a PayPal account to support this effort, I'd happily toss in $10 
or so.

Cheers,

Tom