[Wirelessdriver-support] PowerBook G4 15"/OS X 10.3.2/Proxim Orinoco Silver 802.11b/g

[Barry H. <ly...@al...>]

List,
	I feel like I should start off with 12-step sort of introduction, "Hi,  
my name is Barry, and I am a 3rd party wireless card user for Apple  
PowerBooks..."
	This may be a quick question that confirms my fears.  Is the Proxim  
Orinoco 802.11b/g card able to work with this driver in a 15" PowerBook  
G4 with no AirPort Extreme card installed running Panther (OS X  
10.3.2)?  I had hoped/gambled on the unit using its 802.11b as a  
fallback if the 802.11g didn't work, but neither this driver nor the  
IOXperts driver recognizes the presence of the card.
	If it is true that this card is mostly an expensive and awkward  
bookmark for me now, have folks generally been able to use Proxim  
Orinoco Silver 802.11b cards successfully?
	I had no idea that Apple was not supporting anything but AirPort cards  
in terms of drivers.  I have had AirPort in my past two PowerBooks, but  
the Broadcom chip issue with the current AirPort keeps you from having  
open-source OS access to wireless networking with the AirPort hardware.

Thanks in advance,
--  
Barry C. Hawkins
All Things Computed
site: www.allthingscomputed.com
weblog: www.yepthatsme.com

	Here are the results of my troubleshooting script:

pbg415:~/Desktop barryh$ ./"Troubleshooting Info.command"

### kext versions

Index Refs Address    Size       Wired      Name (Version) <Linked  
Against>
    28    0 0x20266000 0x21000    0x20000     
com.apple.iokit.IOPCCardFamily (1.5.0)
Index Refs Address    Size       Wired      Name (Version) <Linked  
Against>

### system info

ProductName:    Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.3.2
BuildVersion:   7D24
Darwin pbg415.local 7.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version 7.2.0: Thu Dec 11  
16:20:23 PST 2003; root:xnu/xnu-517.3.7.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC  Power  
Macintosh powerpc
ppc7450
/usr/local/mysql/bin:/usr/local/pgsql/bin:/Developer/Java/J2EE/Ant/bin: 
/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/ 
X11R6/bin

### wireless driver files installed

drwxr-xr-x   3 barryh  wheel    102 20 Dec 17:53 SigMeter.app
drwxr-xr-x    3 root  wheel   102 20 Dec 17:53 WirelessDriver.kext
drwxr-xr-x    3 root  wheel   102 24 Sep 18:52 IOPCCardFamily.kext
drwxr-xr-x    3 root  wheel   102 16 Dec 00:53 AppleAirPort.kext
drwxr-xr-x    3 root  wheel   102 16 Dec 00:53 AppleAirPort2.kext
drwxr-xr-x    3 root  wheel   102 16 Dec 00:53 AppleAirPortFW.kext
drwxr-xr-x   3 barryh  wheel   102 20 Dec 17:53 WirelessDriver  
PPane.prefPane

### wirelesscard info


### network info

lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
         inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
         inet6 fe80::1 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::20a:95ff:fea5:6c00 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
         inet 192.168.1.15 netmask 0xffffffe0 broadcast 192.168.1.31
         ether 00:0a:95:a5:6c:00
         media: autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) status: active
         supported media: none autoselect 10baseT/UTP <half-duplex>  
10baseT/UTP <full-duplex> 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex,hw-loopback>  
100baseTX <half-duplex> 100baseTX <full-duplex> 100baseTX  
<full-duplex,hw-loopback> 1000baseTX <full-duplex> 1000baseTX  
<full-duplex,hw-loopback> 1000baseTX <full-duplex,flow-control>  
1000baseTX <full-duplex,flow-control,hw-loopback>
fw0: flags=8822<BROADCAST,SMART,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 4078
         tunnel inet  -->
         lladdr 00:0a:95:ff:fe:a5:6c:00
         media: autoselect <full-duplex> status: inactive
         supported media: autoselect <full-duplex>

### wd command line tool status

./Troubleshooting Info.command: line 38: /usr/local/bin/WirelessConfig:  
No such file or directory