Re: [NTLK] Newton wireless pt100

From: Laurent Daudelin (laurent.daudelin_at_verizon.net)
Date: Sun Feb 09 2003 - 14:30:48 PST


on 09/02/03 16:50, Martin Joseph at martyNT_at_barknaturalpet.com wrote:

> On Sunday, February 9, 2003, at 01:17 PM, Roman Pixell wrote:
>
>> On s=F6ndag, feb 9, 2003, at 16:18 Europe/Stockholm,=20
>> martyNT_at_barknaturalpet.com wrote:
>>> Actually I was a beta tester for the last release of
>>> Agere/orinoco/Lucent wavelan software, which supports the 5300, I
>>> don't know if they ever released it, I think they canned the whole mac
>>> unit.
>> well, why should they keep the mac unit? the lucent chipset works=20
>> perfectly well in OS9, the orinoco cards are even recognised as "apple
>> airport"...
>>> If you want the driver I have let me know...
>> if you run OS9 or higher, theres no need for an extra driver!
>
> Completely Wrong! The 5300 and I believe the 1400 also have different
> PCMCIA architecture then later models, and the Apple airport software
> doesn't work on these.

I'm surprised that it wouldn't work. If AirPort software requires OS 9 and
if the 5300 has OS 9, it should work, methinks. Unless the 5300 PCMCIA slots
are not real PCMCIA or support an older version of the PCMCIA protocol. The
built-in AirPort slot in any PowerBook is just a second PCMCIA slot. That
might have changed with AirPort Extreme, but that's not the case here. If I
was the guy with the 5300, I would make sure that the OS on that machine can
support AirPort software. Then, I would install AirPort before trying the
Lucent's driver. If it doesn't work, then I guess there would be no choice
but use that driver...

-Laurent.

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