[Wirelessdriver-support] Proxim Orinoco Gold card in OS 10.2.6

[Greg S. <st...@as...>]

Two questions:

1. I just bought a Proxim Orinoco Gold card for my 400 MHz TiBook.  As 
other people have reported, it is not recognized by WirelessDriver.  In 
part, this is because during Orinoco's switch from Lucent to Proxim, 
the IOName of the card switched from "pccard156,2" to "pccard156,3".  
In the 1.0.0b5 version of WirelessDriver that I installed, 
"pccard156,3" does not appear in 
/System/Library/Extensions/WirelessDriver.kext/Contents/Info.plist, so 
I added the following line:

                                 <string>pccard156,3</string>

Now the card is recognized so that it shows up as en2 in an `ifconfig 
-a` command or in the Network Preference Pane, but unfortunately, the 
ethernet MAC address does not get properly initialized, defaulting to 
00:00:00:00:00:00 as you can see in the Troubleshooting Info that 
follows.  Does anybody have a suggestion about how I might be able to 
get the MAC address read properly?

2. I am fortunate to have access to a Lucent Orinoco card as well for 
testing purposes, and that card, having the IOName "pccard156,2", gets 
its MAC address read properly.  Unfortunately, my department has its 
Airport network set up in 40-bit encryption mode, and it appears that 
only 128-bit encryption is supported for the Orinoco Gold card.  This 
strikes me as a bit odd (that the silver card has 40-bit support, and 
the gold card can't do 40-bit).  That being said, both of my cards are 
able to take the Airport password and retrieve the proper hex-code.  My 
understanding is that this means that the card is able to communicate 
with the base station and retrieve this information.  It is sad that 
the communication has to end there.  Is there a simple explanation as 
to why 128-bit encryption works and 40-bit doesn't?

I hope to get answers soon so that I'm not forced to plunk down the $20 
for the ioxperts driver.

Thank you.

Here's my Troubleshooting Info:

### system info

ProductName:    Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.2.6
BuildVersion:   6L60
Darwin mycomputer 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 Sep 17 14:17 WirelessDriver.kext
drwxr-xr-x    3 root  wheel   102 May  1 22:03 IOPCCardFamily.kext
drwxr-xr-x   3 stinsong  admin   102 Sep 17 14:15 WirelessDriver 
PPane.prefPane

### wirelesscard info

     | |         |   "VersionOneInfo" = ("Agere Systems","Wireless PC 
Card Model$
     | |       +-o pccard156,3@0,0  <class IOPCCard16Device>
     | |         |   "IOName" = "pccard156,3"
     | |           |   "IONameMatch" = 
("pccard156,2","pccard156,3","pccard1eb,8$
     | |           |   "IONameMatched" = "pccard156,3"

### 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
en2: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
         inet6 fe80::230:65ff:fef3:6b18%en2 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x6
         ether 00:00:00:00:00:00
         media: <unknown type> (DS11 <full-duplex>) status: active
         supported media: none manual autoselect DS1 <half-duplex> DS1 
<full-duplex> DS2 <half-duplex> DS2 <full-duplex> DS5 <half-duplex> DS5 
<full-duplex> DS11 <half-duplex> DS11 <full-duplex>

### wd command line tool status

2003-09-18 14:39:23.464 WirelessConfig[766] Iterations: 1
Network Name: , successful: Y
Status:
Network:
WEP Enabled:NO
Signal Strength:0