ORiNOCO and WEP-128?

Do any of the ORiNOCO PC Cards or variants (Dell 1150, Agere, etc) support
128-bit WEP? It seems most of the specs out there are for older cards and
they only say 64 bit.

On 30/12/03 5:54 pm, in article bsse52$f72$(E-Mail Removed), "Mike S."
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

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>
> Do any of the ORiNOCO PC Cards or variants (Dell 1150, Agere, etc) support
> 128-bit WEP? It seems most of the specs out there are for older cards and
> they only say 64 bit.
>
Yes, my Gold has 128 bit ...

(E-Mail Removed) (Mike S.) writes:
> Do any of the ORiNOCO PC Cards or variants (Dell 1150, Agere, etc)
> support 128-bit WEP? It seems most of the specs out there are for
> older cards and they only say 64 bit.

Check Proxim's web site for your particular card.
http://www.proxim.com/products/wifi/client/

My new Orinoco Gold 11b/g card does. The classic Gold card does as
well.
http://www.proxim.com/products/wifi/...ard/index.html


Best Regards,
--
Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/

Gold = yes
Silver = no
"Mike S." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
> Do any of the ORiNOCO PC Cards or variants (Dell 1150, Agere, etc) support
> 128-bit WEP? It seems most of the specs out there are for older cards and
> they only say 64 bit.
>
>
>

The firmware and drivers for each card can be upgraded at Proxim's Support
link, too.

"Todd H." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> (E-Mail Removed) (Mike S.) writes:
> > Do any of the ORiNOCO PC Cards or variants (Dell 1150, Agere, etc)
> > support 128-bit WEP? It seems most of the specs out there are for
> > older cards and they only say 64 bit.
>
> Check Proxim's web site for your particular card.
> http://www.proxim.com/products/wifi/client/
>
> My new Orinoco Gold 11b/g card does. The classic Gold card does as
> well.
> http://www.proxim.com/products/wifi/...ard/index.html
>
>
> Best Regards,
> --
> Todd H.
> http://www.toddh.net/

Mike S. writes:
> Do any of the ORiNOCO PC Cards or variants (Dell 1150, Agere, etc) support
> 128-bit WEP? It seems most of the specs out there are for older cards and
> they only say 64 bit.

Just a random tidbit here - the new style of Orinoco Silver USB thingys
( 8425-WD - http://makeashorterlink.com/?O6A923DE6 ) can actually do
128bit WEP as though it were a Gold. All you have to do is swap the USB
device identifiers in the main .exe and you end up with a 128bit WEP
option which works fine.

With the Silver PCMCIA cards, I wish the hardware that the Intersil
flash program works with were more common Nothing I've tried yet
actually works

Kris <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> With the Silver PCMCIA cards, I wish the hardware that the Intersil
> flash program works with were more common Nothing I've tried yet
> actually works

What happens when it doesn't work?
I don't use WEP at all, so I bought the Silver, but I have read many
postings about upgrading them to Gold via Apple standard tools, as well
as one set of Windows utilities. Apparently the Apple tools aren't
intended as an upgrade per se, but they just don't pay any attention to
whether it is Silver or Gold before they start a firmware load.

The newer Silver cards are actually different, at least in that they don't
have an external antenna connector. Mine doesn't say Proxim on it
anywhere. The newer ones do.

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

(E-Mail Removed) writes:
> Kris <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> > With the Silver PCMCIA cards, I wish the hardware that the Intersil
> > flash program works with were more common Nothing I've tried yet
> > actually works
>
> What happens when it doesn't work?
> I don't use WEP at all, so I bought the Silver, but I have read many
> postings about upgrading them to Gold via Apple standard tools, as well
> as one set of Windows utilities. Apparently the Apple tools aren't
> intended as an upgrade per se, but they just don't pay any attention to
> whether it is Silver or Gold before they start a firmware load.

The error is either...

"RID read error. Offset busy bit never cleared"
or
"Command 332 never signaled status"

.... depending on whether I use an old laptop or a Libretto. Same with
the Lucent PCMCIA-PCI adapter.

Anyone who wants to have a go can get the flash utility here:

flash.exe & flash.ini: http://home.eunet.cz/jt/wifi/

Running it from a pure DOS prompt...

Extract the PDA (manufacturer data area): flash -5v -pd card.pda
You may need to add -legacy depending on the PCMCIA chipset.

Then edit the card.pda and make the line near the bottom starting with a
6 read as: 6 109 3 3 2b 0 0

Then write it (this is the annoying bit that doesn't always work) to the
card again: flash -5v -p card.pda Again, you may need to add -legacy.

Then the normal Windows Orinoco flash utility should *apparently* flash
with a Gold firmware... but who knows about that. Some people got it to
work.

I got all the info from this thread:
http://forums.netstumbler.com/showth...&threadid=7538

Still trying to come up with a suitable mini-PCI card for my old Toshiba
laptop, which will work with a WRT54G in 128-WEP mode.

Is "128-bit RC4" on the old ORiNOCO cards incompatible with "128-bit WEP"
on my router?

In article <rcudnSDmCrAIT2yiRVn-(E-Mail Removed)>,
Tom Scales <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>"Mike S." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:bsse52$f72$(E-Mail Removed)...
>>
>>
>> Do any of the ORiNOCO PC Cards or variants (Dell 1150, Agere, etc) support
>> 128-bit WEP? It seems most of the specs out there are for older cards and
>> they only say 64 bit.
>
>Gold = yes
>Silver = no

Is the Lucent/Agere/ORiNOCO MPCI3A-20 the equivalent of the "silver" or
"gold" mini-PCI cards?