Old Orinoco Gold... what software do I need?

Hi all,

I'm using an old Orinoco Gold PCMCIA card. I finally found the driver
needed to make it work.
Now it connects to the Access Point when the laptop is turned on and
works fine.

The problem is that when I installed the driver, no other software was
installed. I think now
my computer considers it a simple network card and I have no way to
change the wireless
settings. The only way for me to change them, is to re-install the
card's driver (during driver
installation I'm prompted to select network, data encryption etc.). In
addition, I cannot initiate
an ad-hoc network like this...

I think there is a software like "Client Manager" or something like
this... But I cannot find it
and download it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Nicolas

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm using an old Orinoco Gold PCMCIA card. I finally found the driver
> needed to make it work.
> Now it connects to the Access Point when the laptop is turned on and
> works fine.
>
> The problem is that when I installed the driver, no other software was
> installed. I think now
> my computer considers it a simple network card and I have no way to
> change the wireless
> settings. The only way for me to change them, is to re-install the
> card's driver (during driver
> installation I'm prompted to select network, data encryption etc.). In
> addition, I cannot initiate
> an ad-hoc network like this...
>
> I think there is a software like "Client Manager" or something like
> this... But I cannot find it
> and download it.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Nicolas
>
Hi,
I use Orinoco gold 11abg card as well on my Thinkpad.
You can down load utility from their site(Proxim) or I use Thinkvantage
Access control.
Tony

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> I'm using an old Orinoco Gold PCMCIA card. I finally found the driver
> needed to make it work.

With Windows XP-SP2, the built in driver works just fine.
The latest Proxim drivers also work, but if you have wireless zero, the
configuration is deferred to WinXP drivers, and the client manager has some
options that just don't appear, or are grayed out, I forget which.
I have an Orinoco Silver, but I think the drivers are the same.

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Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley (Lake County) CA USA 38.8,-122.5

On 28 Feb 2006 00:40:00 -0800, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:

>I'm using an old Orinoco Gold PCMCIA card.

That's now called a Proxim Orinoco Classic Gold 16 bit Client Card.
These are good cards and well worth keeping.

Drivers are available for download from the Proxim web pile.
Registration is required. When searching, try both "software" and
"drivers" as they're apparently mixed.

See:

http://support.proxim.com/cgi-bin/pr...p?p_faqid=1082

If your card says "Agere" instead of Wavelan, Orinoco, Lucent, Avaya,
or Proxim, you might wanna try these drivers:
http://www.agere.com/mobility/wireless_lan_drivers.html

The software comes in two parts. There's the actual drivers for the
card and a "client manager" that sets up the connection. You'll need
both.

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Tony,
Clarence and
Jeff

Thank you all so much for your help...

I'm going to try these "proxim" drivers right now...

Thanks again.

Nicolas