Re: [NTLK] FS: Lucent Orinoco Silver Cards

From: Smith Family (smithrus_at_hutchtel.net)
Date: Sun Sep 22 2002 - 07:05:31 PDT


> the MP130 can not do Ethernet, so I suppose, there is also no way for it
to do
> the Orinoco cards. You'd need a 2x00 Newton to do that.

I actually have a Newton 2100 coming in the mail, I was getting the card for
that. I was looking to get the 130 for a family member.

> And no, the Silver Cards don't do 128 Bit WEP, they do 40 bit WEP, you
need a
> Gold Card to do 128 Bit. However, there was an article mentioned in this
> group a few weeks ago, which describes how to use the Airport Update
(Apple
> Stuff) in a PowerBook to make the Silver Card to think it's a Gold Card.
The
> firmware update apparently does something funky to the Silver Card.

I heard about that online... anyone know if I can do that in my situation,
or if I should just get a Gold card?

Colin

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