[Wirelessdriver-support] Orinoco Silver does not work on Wallstreet PB G3

[Paul C. <pjc...@ve...>]

Attempted to post from wrong account... sorry.


Folks,

I have a Wallstreet G3 Powerbook with a 500 MHz upgrade processor 
card.  I'm running MacOS X 10.2.8. I purchased an Orinoco 
(Agere/Proxim/Lucent) Silver PC Card after seeing it on the supported 
cards list for the wireless driver.

After some back and forth, I successfully installed the wireless 
driver and the Troubleshooting Info script found everything, except 
the command-line utility, "/usr/local/bin/WirelessConfig". In the 
Finder, the PC Card icon appears in the menu bar when the card is 
inserted. The pop-down menu there says "Agere Systems Wireless PC 
Card Model 0110" (those lines greyed out) and "Eject Card."

Opening the WirelessConfig applet in System Preferences shows the 
field to connect to the wireless network is available. The horizontal 
signal thermometer is full. Signal to Noise graph is empty. I enter 
the network name, WEP is enabled, I use 'convert text to hex key' as 
I know the password for the network. (I've tried other permutations 
of disabling 'closed network' and 'WEP' on the AirPort Base Station 
(ABS) with no change in behavior.)

By the way, when I make a change to the ABS and click the Update 
button, the Admin utility returns to the main 'scan' window and the 
ABS is missing and there is no getting it back. What is that about? I 
power cycle it and re-launching the Admin Utility after a short wait 
shows it again and the changes are in place.

MenuMeters shows some Tx (transfer) activity but O bytes for Rx 
(receiving.) the IP address as 169.254.220.187 (self-assigned), not a 
LAN address. Others on the LAN are 10.0.1.x. Choosing en1 in System 
Preferences and "Apply Now" returns the same IP address.

Note, there appear to be two LED indicator lights on the PC Card but 
they have never lit. I found another post in the mailing list 
archives where the poster had two brand new Silver cards and neither 
of them lit.

In any case, I cannot connect. A Powerbook G4 with Airport card can 
connect successfully. An iMac running 10.2.8 can also successfully 
connect. We are using a Snow (dual Ethernet) Airport Base Station 
with firmware 4.08 and the AirPort Admin Utility version is 3.1.1. I 
have never ejected the card except at shutdown, as recommended in the 
FAQ. Rebooting with the card in shows no change. Plugging an Ethernet 
cable into the hub connects with no trouble.

If it matters, the AirPort WAN port is connected to the Ethernet port 
of our DSL modem and the AirPort's LAN port is connected to the WAN 
port of a 4-port hub.

If anyone has successfully connected with a Wallstreet PB and an 
Orinico Silver card let me know. I'll include the Troubleshooting 
Info script report below. (I made a copy of the script and called it 
wirelessck.command for easier typing in running the command.)

Let me know. Thanks.

Paul

% cd /Applications/Wireless
% ls -ld /Applications/WirelessConfig.app
drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  102 Mar  8 13:26 /Applications/WirelessConfig.app/
% wirelessck.command

### kext versions

Index Refs Address    Size       Wired      Name (Version) <Linked Against>
    24    2 0xe797000  0x21000    0x20000 com.apple.iokit.IOPCCardFamily (1.4.0)
Index Refs Address    Size       Wired      Name (Version) <Linked Against>
    63    0 0xe992000  0xe000     0xd000 
org.noncontiguous.WirelessDriver (1.0b5)

### system info

ProductName:    Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.2.8
BuildVersion:   6R73
Darwin pjcpb.local. 6.8 Darwin Kernel Version 6.8: Wed Sep 10 
15:20:55 PDT 2003; root:xnu/xnu-344.49.obj~2/RELEASE_PPC  Power 
Macintosh powerpc
ppc750
/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin::/usr/local/bin:/Users/paulcorr/bin:.

### wireless driver files installed

drwxr-xr-x   3 root      wheel      102 Mar  8 13:26 SigMeter.app
drwxr-xr-x    3 root  wheel   102 Mar  8 13:26 WirelessDriver.kext
drwxr-xr-x    3 root  wheel   102 Sep 10  2003 IOPCCardFamily.kext
drwxr-xr-x    3 root  wheel   102 Sep 10  2003 AppleAirPort.kext
drwxr-xr-x    3 root  wheel   102 Sep 10  2003 AppleAirPort2.kext
drwxr-xr-x    3 root  wheel   102 Sep 10  2003 AppleAirPortFW.kext
drwxr-xr-x   3 root      wheel   102 Mar  8 13:26 WirelessDriver PPane.prefPane

### wirelesscard info

     |     | |   |   "VersionOneInfo" = ("Agere Systems","Wireless PC 
Card Model $
     |     +-o pccard@13  <class IOPCIDevice>
     |     | |   "device_type" = <"pccard">
     |     | |   "name" = <"pccard">
     |     | | +-o pccard156,3@0,0  <class IOPCCard16Device>
     |     | |   |   "IOName" = "pccard156,3"
     |     | |     |   "IONameMatch" = 
("pccard138,2","pccard156,2","pccard156,3"$
     |     | |     |   "IONameMatched" = "pccard156,3"
     |     +-o pccard@13,1  <class IOPCIDevice>
     |       |   "device_type" = <"pccard">
     |       |   "name" = <"pccard">

### 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::205:2ff:fe79:ac2a%en0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
         ether 00:05:02:79:ac:2a
         media: autoselect (none) status: inactive
         supported media: none autoselect 10baseT/UTP <half-duplex> 
10baseT/UTP <full-duplex> 100baseTX <half-duplex> 100baseTX 
<full-duplex>
en1: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
         inet6 fe80::205:2ff:fe79:ac2a%en1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5
         inet 169.254.220.187 netmask 0xffff0000 broadcast 169.254.255.255
         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

wirelessck.command: /usr/local/bin/WirelessConfig: No such file or directory
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