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RE: [Netstumbler] netstumbler not working with latest (Feb 2003)Orinoco drivers
Some more to add to this thread concerning the new drivers and further
confuse the issue concerning this card.
My Orinoco Gold card failed last week, weak RF amp, and I exchanged the card
under warranty. I received a card that was packaged differently than my
original - with the same part number provided by Robert. The CD was dated
Feb 2003 and has a part number 63959/A.
I have two laptops - one running W2K with Service Pack 3 and the other
running XP with Service Pack 1a. I installed the software as instructed and
was pleased to find that the client manager worked inconjunction with the XP
manager. I was able to get my card to work on my local network and
NetStumbler (0.3.30) appreared to be functioning. However, I started to
note that NetStumbler was reporting the same AP with two channels. The real
channel and channel 14. I used my Orinoco Gold Combo (11a/b) card and a
Linksys card (works fine under XP). Then I only see one RF channel
associated with an AP. Unfortunately neither card supports an external
antenna.
I uninstalled the software that was loaded from CD because the Orinoco site
states that drivers are built into XP. The drivers built into XP would not
work with the new card (they did recognize the old card so I did not use any
CD to load drivers for the original PC Card). So I decided to see what W2K
would do.
So thinking something may be wrong with the XP interface I installed the
card on my 2000 machine and I can confirm the same results seen by everyone
else using these new drivers. I can connect to the my WEP enabled network
but NetStumbler does not recognize the card. I read the TechNote concerning
the registry change but I don't think it applies if you are able to connect
to a wireless AP. I made the change to the registry since it did not appear
to be intrusive but it did not fix the problem. The note referred to the
inability to get a network connection which is not my case. The network
connection works fine but netstumbler is unable to see the drivers for the
card.
I'm not sure because I'm still checking but I don't think the new drivers
are fully NDIS 5.1 compliant - I think they be a cut down version because I
saw a reference to NDIS 5.1 miniport driver.
I just went into the orinocowireless site and downloaded the previous
version 7.2 drivers and tried them on the W2K machine. No luck - the
drivers do not recognize the new card.
What other PC Cards have an external antenna connection?
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Kulagowski [mailto:rkulagowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 4:17 PM
To: netstumbler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Netstumbler] netstumbler not working with latest (Feb 2003)
Orinoco drivers
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These drivers don't seem to be released yet on the Orinoco website,
but they came on the CD that was in the WCN / Netstumbler.com mobile
kit with 5dBi antenna. The CD has "Feb 2003" stamped on it.
The Orinoco Wireless Client manager reports this:
Date: 2003/06/19 15:08:10
OS: WIN2000 Version 5.00 Service Pack 3 Build 2195
Variant 1, Version 3.04 of Client Manager
Variant 4, Version 7.82 of NDIS 5 Miniport driver
Variant 13, Version 1.00 of Wireless PC Card Model 0111
Agere Systems Standard (White) Card
Encryption capabilities: WEP + 128RC4
Max. data rate: 11 Mbit/s
03UT18332908
Variant 2, Version 1.10 of Primary Functions firmware
Variant 3, Version 1.24 of Station Functions firmware
Right clicking on the card in the Driver manager shows:
Driver Provider: Agere Systems
Driver Date: 2003-02-27
Driver Version: 7.82.0.354
Netstumbler is: Network Stumbler Version 0.3.30
When run, the status at the bottom is "No wireless card found".
Clicking on Device shows me a greyed-out Wireless PC Card Model 0111.
I have searched the archives at Netstumbler.com and michiganwireless.
Don't see anything applicable there.
Thanks.
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