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

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I too have this card and am encountering the same problems in OS X 2.6 
on my Lombard PB. I'm also getting to my limit on technical expertise 
(I'm a web designer not a techie!), so, does the ioxperts driver work 
with an orinoco gold card? If it does, I'll happily shed out $20! That 
is unless there is a simple solution to this wireless driver issue. I 
need this wireless network so I don't have to work in my hallway! (long 
story... won't get into it here...)

:) Michelle

On Saturday, Sep 20, 2003, at 04:36 Europe/London, 
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>    1. Proxim Orinoco Gold card in OS 10.2.6 (Greg Stinson)
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> Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 14:43:03 -0700
> From: Greg Stinson <st...@as...>
> To: wir...@li...
> Subject: [Wirelessdriver-support] Proxim Orinoco Gold card in OS 10.2.6
>
> 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
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