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Description

The listing, Orinoco Silver - Laptop WiFi Card has ended.

Orinoco Silver from Lucent Technologies in excellent condition. Included is one of the sturdiest protective plastic case I've ever gotten with any electronics equipment.

This is a 5V PCCard meant for your laptop. The card is dated and only supports 11Mbits/s connections. It is known to be supported out of the box on Windows, Macs and Linux.

This card is well known for top-notch reception, and external antenna connection, and the ability to report noise, which made it the preferred card for wardriving years ago.

Some useful links:

http://bit.ly/96i9IW - Wikipedia Page! (No, I did not write it!)
http://bit.ly/cLowVL - Amazon Description.
http://bit.ly/azXPqK - Transforming Silver into Gold, use at your own risk.
http://bit.ly/9YwnQl - Gold Datasheet, only difference should be WEP64 versus WEP128. (See preceding link. Note the wide range, 1750ft before using external antenna.)

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Questions & Comments

Do you have the Driver Disc?

Mar 17th, 2010 at 11:02:08 AM PDT by

No disk included.

Proxim, the company that now owns the rights to it have put everything (iso plus individual updates) online: http://bit.ly/9axDsh

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Mar 17th, 2010 at 2:43:48 PM PDT by

Very cool! I remember wep cracking using this card back in the day... You should "transmute" this into a gold card; it's really easy to do, and is worth a lot more.

Mar 17th, 2010 at 1:05:47 PM PDT by

Yes, I should.

I included a link for doing that, so I'll leave it to the auction winner... (maybe I'll do it anyway...)

Mar 17th, 2010 at 2:26:24 PM PDT by

Can it be updated to support WPA. I didn't see any links on that. thanks!

Mar 23rd, 2010 at 12:27:28 PM PDT by

No, I don't believe so... or at least not easily...

Windows: Proxim does not provide any drivers (white paper) - http://bit.ly/ap9ZLw.

Linux: I tried a Ubuntu 9.04 (32bit, liveCD) but it only allowed WEP selections and LEAP(?) out of the box. I'm a little surprised because I thought that a "supplicant" driver (OS does most of the heavy lifting) would work.

You can find some directions Googling, but I don't think they apply to the PCCards.

(Anyone out there with better information?)

Mar 23rd, 2010 at 6:53:22 PM PDT by

Ok. Thanks for looking. I was actually trying to see if there is Mac OS X support with WPA but after looking online it didn't find anything promising.

Mar 23rd, 2010 at 8:28:08 PM PDT by

dont do that im bidding on what it is.

Mar 24th, 2010 at 11:16:58 AM PDT by

Rest assured - once there was a bid on it, I was not going to do anything that could possibly change it.

Mar 24th, 2010 at 4:50:54 PM PDT by

WIll this work in a older hp laptop running windows 98 and a pentium 2 processor?

Mar 25th, 2010 at 6:26:39 PM PDT by

Most likely yes.

Proxim has drivers for Windows98 on their website. I've check the documentation (see links above in comments) and didn't see the minimum requirements. They provide drivers for WindowCE, so I would think that a Pentium II would be powerful enough.

You need to verify that you have a 5V PCCard slot on your laptop. You can probably find that by searching the model number at the HP website. I would suspect that it does.

Mar 25th, 2010 at 8:03:05 PM PDT by

Orinoco Silver - Laptop WiFi Card is in the Computers & Networking | Computer Components category