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

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Hi Scott -

Check to see if your WPC-11 is listed as rev. D. After going through 
similar frustration a month or so ago after giving up on the Airport 
card inside my wife's TiBook, Finding a more detailed compatibility 
list at IOXperts that specifically excluded rev. D of the WPC-11 model. 
I assumed the same incompatibility impaired the WirelessDriver and 
exchanged the card for the NetGear unit.

Peter
On Sunday, August 10, 2003, at 05:50  PM, Scott DeLong wrote:

> 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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