[NTLUG:Discuss] Wireless

[Ralph Green, Jr]

Scott,
  I have two pieces of bad news.  
  The first is that the Orinoco card you got is not a good one.  I don't
have enough experience with wireless too say so myself, but the dealer I
bought my Orinoco Silver card from described the Proxim cards as junk. 
The leader on the DFWUUG Security SIG hinted at the same thing.  Proxim
bought the company, discontinued the old products and put the name on a
second rate card they were already making.  That is what I hear,
anyway.  I have been researching  cards for the last 2 months.  The
Classic Orinoco and the Cisco Aironet seem to be the very best.  Prism
2/2.5/3 card are ok, too.  Atmels seem problematic, with some reports of
success and some of failure.
  The second problem is one you hinted at.  Probably no card is going to
work until you get the PCMCIA problems worked out.  You can either get
that fixed or just use a USB wireless card.  I have aPrism 2.5 based
card made by Siemans that works well.
Good luck,
Ralph  

On Sat, 2004-04-24 at 13:41, Scott Hollomon wrote:
> I'm good with getting the Orinoco but which one?  I just got a proxim Orinoco 
> Gold model 8420-WD and it won't work either.  I have another disk for my