Lucent/Orinoco usb-w ?

I have a Lucent USB-W, which is basically just a USB cage with
an Orinoco Gold card in it. I am trying to find more information
about it -- preferably drivers for Mac OS 10.3 (aka Panther).

Unfortunately, I'm having a heck of a time locating information
about it. Lucent's site mentions it in on press release from 2000
but not even by part name. Avaya, Agere, Proxim -- none of them
have a peep about it. And http://www.orinocowireless.com appears
to be down.

Is OriNoco headed down the tubes or just temporary tech problems
or ???
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Walter Roberson

Orinoco is now owned by Proxim.com, they have specs etc for the gold card,
not sure about what seems an old version of the USB adapter.
Regards,
Martin

In article <u%a1c.16676$Y%(E-Mail Removed)>,
Martin² <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
:Orinoco is now owned by Proxim.com, they have specs etc for the gold card,
:not sure about what seems an old version of the USB adapter.

Looks like it's now entered under the name 8424-WD on proxim.com
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Walter Roberson wrote:
> I have a Lucent USB-W, which is basically just a USB cage with
> an Orinoco Gold card in it. I am trying to find more information
> about it -- preferably drivers for Mac OS 10.3 (aka Panther).

When discussing "Orinoco" of any color or flavor, one must be very
certain about just what exactly is being discussed. That name has been
sold and has changed hands at least a couple of times, and the cards
themselves have changed RADICALLY, meaning that the chipsets used in
them have changed! That's as fundamental a change as can happen to
computer devices.

In any case, here are a couple of starting points for some research into
finding out WHAT you have, and how you might interface it for operation
in MacOS 10.x

http://wirelessdriver.sourceforge.net/
http://binaervarianz.de/projekte/pro...c/download.php
http://ioxperts.com/
http://www.musox.com/
http://homepage.mac.com/robm/.cv/rob...tgz-binhex.hqx
http://homepage.mac.com/yuriwho/.cv/...dmg-binhex.hqx