Do I need a Orinoco Gold 802.11b Wireless PC Card instead of Orinoco Silver
802.11b PC Card for my Lombard OS 9.1...because airport won't work and I am
running os 9.1 so the Belkin card won't work...
>> no. the pismo is the first one that used the internal airport card, i
>> fitted my aunt's lombard with a belkin card on the pc slot. it only
>> works in os X.
Clark Martin's email said
> For a Lombard you will need a PC Card. Orinoco Silver or Gold,
> (non-CardBus) will do. There are others. The Orinoco cards at least
> will work with Airport software under OS 9.
>> The Gold version antenna includes a built-in connector for an external Range
>> Extender Antenna which improves performance locations where it is difficult
>> to 'see' an Access Point.
but will it fit my PC slot physically, and run with os 9.1? I assume it
comes with drivers.
Kristina
with dsl & earthlink and general fume with sprint windows/mac techies
...but no dsl or earthlink for the Lombard...my original intent.
Amazon.com (who did not have one)
Orinoco Silver 802.11b PC Card
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Product Details
* Wide coverage range of up to 1,750 feet or 550 meters
* Plugs directly into PCMCIA card slot
* Intuitive client manager for easy, fast configuration
* Up to 100 location profiles
* 802.1x authentication, 64-bit key WEP
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* 1 person recommended Orinoco Gold 802.11b Wireless PC Card instead of
Orinoco Silver 802.11b PC Card
Product Description
>From the Manufacturer
The ORiNOCO 11b Client PC Card can be used anywhere to connect to 802.11b
Wi-Fi networks. The card provides 11 MBit/s operation in the 2.4 GHz
license-free frequency band. With superior radio performance and resilience
to radio interference, ORiNOCO has been proven to give the best 802.11b
range and throughput in the industry. The card also supports 802.11d global
roaming to simplify connecting at facilities world-wide. Offered in Silver
and Gold versions, the card is equipped with a choice of security levels to
protect your data: Silver with a 64-bit WEP key, or Gold with user
selectable 64- and 128-bit WEP keys. Both versions support ORiNOCO's WEP+
weak key Initialization Vector suppression technology to make the cards more
robust against security attacks. Both versions are upgradeable to Wi-Fi
Protected Access (WPA). Both Gold and Silver versions of the card are
furnished with a streamlined form factor and short antenna which makes it
easier to work in crowded spaces. The Gold version antenna includes a
built-in connector for an external Range Extender Antenna which improves
performance locations where it is difficult to 'see' an Access Point.
The hardware works quite well with Linux, The Mac, and Win2K, but the
product has been bounced around so much since Lucent's original release,
finding current drivers and documentation is a major undertaking.
Tech-support from its current owner doesn't respond to inquiries, and the
software for configuration suffers in comparison to other vendors, such as
Apple.
If you're into mucking around the web or newsgroups, you can get help- once
you get it to work, it does perform quite well.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5 out of 5 stars Well-Known as the Best Cards to buy, March 16, 2003
Reviewer: Amitab Mukerjee "digdug" (Manhattan, NY USA) - See all my
reviews
Often times, as you may know, a particular product's quality among various
manufacturers is very similar, with any difference being more media hype
than actual performance. However, in certain cases (like with memory sticks
for example) the difference is drastic. Here is yet another case.
It's well known among the "techie" community that Orinoco's (either silver
or gold) are the best wireless cards, and by a wide margin. Their
performance is a drastic improvement over any other card, and as evidenced
in one of the ratings, this card allows you to use your computer/laptop in
places you wouldn't think possible. Hope this helps.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
4 out of 5 stars Works on PC and Mac systems, January 8, 2003
Reviewer: "kk6yb" (San Marcos, CA United States) - See all my reviews
I purchased two Orinoco Silver PC cards, one for my old G3 Powerbook
(Wallstreet) and one for my daughter's Dell Latitude laptop. They both work
great and get very good signals and data transfer speeds from anywhere in
the house.
Installing on the Macintosh Powerbook was more problematic. The CD that
comes with this card has a folder containing Mac drivers but they didn't
work for me. However, I some net searching told me that this is the same
card sold as Apple's Airport card and that I could use Apple's Airport
drivers. So I downloaded and installed Airport 2.0.2 (which works with MacOS
9.0.4 and up). Because my Powerbook is old (1998), I can't upgrade past
MacOS 9.1 and can't use the latest Airport drivers (2.0.4) but the 2.0.2
work fine and support 64 bit WEP which I use on my home network.
My home network is based on the Netgear FM411P router/firewall/access
point/print server which works great with these cards.
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