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

[Andrew G. <gre...@ya...>]

Also limited success with Lombard + Orinoco/Silver + 10.2.4 + Airport.  I'm
using my friends' hub and she wants to use WEP encryption.  I installed,
reinstalled, set up DHCP and WEP, had it fail, restarted, restarted until I
got a signal and it worked!

Problem: The signal is terrible.  My other computer gets a strong signal if
I put the same card in that, but my mac won't.  Any ideas?


> 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
> 
> 
> 
> 
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