Thanks for the update. I tried the original release without luck. I
have a ugate 3300 wireless router. I will try setting the id to newton
and the channel is already 11 and encryption is already disabled.
I'll have to check out the site.
thanks again. the digest form (when I started lurking) just isn't as fun
to read as all the messages I used to get.
On Thursday, May 9, 2002, at 10:54 PM, Jesse Garnier wrote:
> John Fraser wrote not long ago (5/9/02 11:19 PM):
>
>> I have a wavelan card and tried the older drivers. I'm typically a
>> lurker. can anyone update me on what is going on with the project?
>> Any
>> way to actually surf over the card yet? can I even connect to non
>> apple
>> base stations?
>
> Wow. Deep lurking. It's a pretty active topic, even among the sdrawkcab
> segassem and braking discussions, etc. ;)
>
> Anyway... Like a lot of things, it works, sort of. Actually, it works
> pretty
> well, but there are some 'buts.'
>
> Hiroshi Noguchi has released several versions of his WaveLan driver.
> alpha3,
> the version just before his current release, works well for many. It
> required the AirPort (or other 802.11b) base station to be have a
> specific
> identity (Newton), transmit on a specific channel (11), and disable WEP
> encryption. If you have your own base station, great, if you're in a
> shared,
> or corporate environment, you may not have control over your base
> station's
> configuration.
>
> His latest version, beta1, was just released yesterday and is actually
> not
> working for most people, including myself.
>
> If you have the older drivers, then you've likely seen Hiroshi's page:
>
> http://www.ff.iij4u.or.jp/~ngc/eng/newtwave.htm
>
> It has descriptions of all the drivers and more.
>
> --Jesse
>
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