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

[Michelle M. <mic...@ja...>]

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Actually, RK sent this to me about this issue. Try it, and let us know 
if it works. See below.

bw,
Michelle

> 8.  PLEASE NOTE:  If you have WEP encryption turned on, turn it off 
> and use the filtering function in the Base Station.  To do this, get 
> your MAC address off of your  ethernet card (or it appears in System  
> Profiler under "Network Overview" and looks like this:  
> 00:02:4D:7T:59:3F.  Then take that address and plug it into the area 
> in the Base Station Config that filters addresses.  You have to click  
> on the "advanced settings" to access this.  Then several tabs appear 
> across the top and it's under one of those.  NOTE:  You'll have to put 
> in the same address for each computer on your network.
>
> I didn't get it to work  until I turned off WEP and did this.  I even 
> had a signal indicator, and entered the key, but it still would not 
> work until I  turned off WEP.


>> 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.
>>