[Wirelessdriver-support] Help with Linksys WPC-11 v.4 Card

[Scott D. <Sp...@sp...>]

Wireless Driver Support members-

I am attempting better reception with a new Linksys PC Card on my 
PowerBook G4 (400mhz) laptop. Currently using the built in airport 
antennas, the reception is poor in many areas of my home. I had read an 
article in Macworld regarding using 3rd party PC cards in combination 
with the WirelessDriver software to gain better reception with higher 
powered cards using their own external antennason the PowerBook G4.

Reading through the FAQ 
(http://wirelessdriver.sourceforge.net/faq.html) on the Wireless Driver 
website, the Linksys WPC-11 card is listed as being a SUPPORTED card. 
My local Best Buy had these cards on sale with a discount for only 
$39.99 so I picked one up today. After following the simple install 
instruction, the EN1 (or EN2) network port doesn't NOT show up in 
Network Settings in OSX 10.2.6 Jaguar. I have tried all the suggestions 
in the FAQ page (reinstalling, booting with card inserted)... and still 
cannot get the EN1 to show up to even choose the PC Card as the active 
network port.

I noticed that I purchased version 4 of the WPC-11. According to 
Linksys' website, they have v3 listed in their product line, so this 
may be newer technology. The FAQ on the WirelessDriver site does not 
mention a version when listing the Linksys WPC-11 compatibility. Maybe 
support has not been added in the driver? Any suggestions would be 
helpful. I've included the Troubleshooting script from Terminal below.

Last login: Sun Aug 10 17:14:41 on ttyp1
/Volumes/WirelessDriver\ beta\ 5.1/Utilities/Troubleshooting\ 
Info.command; exit
Welcome to Darwin!
[TiBook-G4:~] sdelong% /Volumes/WirelessDriver\ beta\ 
5.1/Utilities/Troubleshooting\ Info.command; exit

### system info

ProductName:    Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.2.6
BuildVersion:   6L60
Darwin TiBook-G4.local. 6.6 Darwin Kernel Version 6.6: Thu May  1 
21:48:54 PDT 2003; root:xnu/xnu-344.34.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC  Power 
Macintosh powerpc
ppc7400

### wireless driver files installed

drwxr-xr-x    3 root  wheel   102 Aug 10 17:06 WirelessDriver.kext
drwxr-xr-x    3 root  wheel   102 May  2 00:03 IOPCCardFamily.kext

### wirelesscard info

     | |             "VersionOneInfo" = ("Realtek","Rtl8139")

### network info

lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
         inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
         inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
         inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
gif0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280
stf0: flags=0<> mtu 1280
en0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
         inet6 fe80::203:93ff:fe10:46c8%en0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
         ether 00:03:93:10:46:c8
         media: autoselect (none) status: inactive
         supported media: none autoselect 10baseT/UTP <half-duplex> 
10baseT/UTP <half-duplex,hw-loopback> 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex> 
10baseT/UTP <full-duplex,hw-loopback> 100baseTX <half-duplex> 100baseTX 
<half-duplex,hw-loopback> 100baseTX <full-duplex> 100baseTX 
<full-duplex,hw-loopback>
en1: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
         inet6 fe80::230:65ff:fe09:6a8d%en1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5
         ether 00:30:65:09:6a:8d
         media: autoselect status: inactive
         supported media: autoselect

### wd command line tool status

/Volumes/WirelessDriver beta 5.1/Utilities/Troubleshooting 
Info.command: WirelessConfig: command not found
logout
[Process completed]

Thanks Much
-Scott
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