[Wirelessdriver-support] no blinking Orinoco Silver

[Simone <sim...@em...>]

Hi all, I am having big problems with my orinoco silver

pcmcia card on my powerbook g3 firewire OS 10.3.6.
Really red a lot of the posting before writing this, and this all the 
things I've done:

Edited Info.plist to make it load the drivers (pccard156,3).
All things in order, network device en1 shows up, got the Panel in the 
system preferences, SigMeter show up in the bar beside the pcmcia icon 
and I can turn pccard off. So everything looks like it is working and 
the signal strenght goes up and down a bit but it is almost always full 
(I am doing this 1 meter from the access point).

But, even if the signal is full I cannot connect to the network (but if 
I ping my IP address I get a response), and mainly, the lights on the 
card do not blink at all. The card is not broken for sure because I 
tested it on a PC. Here's the result of the Troubleshooting script:

/Applications/Troubleshooting\ Info.command; exit
name:~ name$ /Applications/Troubleshooting\ Info.command; exit

### system info

ProductName:    Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.3.6
BuildVersion:   7R28
Darwin name.local 7.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 7.6.0: Sun Oct 10 12:05:27 
PDT 2004; root:xnu/xnu-517.9.4.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC  Power Macintosh powerpc
ppc750

### wireless driver files installed

drwxr-xr-x    3 root  wheel   102  4 Dec 23:24 WirelessDriver.kext
drwxr-xr-x    3 root  wheel   102 25 Sep  2003 IOPCCardFamily.kext
drwxr-xr-x   3 root      wheel   102  4 Dec 23:23 WirelessDriver 
PPane.prefPane

### wirelesscard info

   | |         |   "VersionOneInfo" = ("Agere Systems","Wireless PC Card 
Model$
   | |       +-o pccard156,3@0,0  <class IOPCCard16Device, registered, 
matched$
   | |         |   "IOName" = "pccard156,3"
   | |           |   "IONameMatched" = "pccard156,3"
   | |           |   "IONameMatch" = 
("pccard156,2","pccard1eb,807","pccard274$

### 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::230:65ff:fe7e:1b8a prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
       inet 192.168.0.14 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
       ether 00:h8:56:56:34:34
       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>
en1: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
       inet 192.168.0.7 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255

       ether 00:00:00:00:00:00       ******STRANGE????******

       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>
fw0: flags=8822<BROADCAST,SMART,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 2030
       lladdr 00:etc etc
       media: autoselect <full-duplex> status: inactive
       supported media: autoselect <full-duplex>

### wd command line tool status

2004-12-05 00:02:00.918 WirelessConfig[517] Iterations: 1
Network Name: homewireless, successful: Y
Status:
Network: homewireless
WEP Enabled:NO
Signal Strength:20529
logout
[Process completed]


Isn't this line " ether 00:00:00:00:00:00" strange? Where is my MAC 
Address?

Please, help, I am really  a newbie on Mac, so I don't know what else to 
try.
Any help, really really appreciated

Simone

PS OS X is fully updated, could it be some kind of firmware update for G3?