FW: [MLB-WIRELESS] Lucent WaveLan 802.11 Cards can they be upgraded?

[Ryan Abbenhuys]

My appologies, I made an assumption based on my experiences with old Cisco
802.11 FHSS gear. oops


>Sorry to say that this is wrong information....
>The Lucent Wavelan Bronze and the original Wavelan "White" cards are
indeed
>not 802.11b, however they have an IEEE 802.11 mode - the mode driver for
>which was actually already on their original driver CDs!
>I have two of each in a 802.11b WLAN environment of Avaya and Roamabout
>cards with an SVEC and a Netgear AP - and they work like a charm. Just at
>2mbps as was already mentioned (no way to upgrade them to 11Mbps nor
>encryption!).
>It is also possible that you have encryption turned on somewhere in your
>WLAN - and that will of course exclude the cards altogether.
>What may be necessary is to update the firmware with the 802.11 driver (in
>fact all of the later Lucent-silver-gold/Orinoco/Avaya firmware upgrades
>have provision for the old Wavelan cards (the documentation even mentions
>them).
>So go ahead, ensure there is no encryption and/or update the firmware and
>all will be well!
>Cheers,
>Joe
>(happy 2Mbps WLAN user)
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-melbwireless at wireless.org.au
>[mailto:owner-melbwireless at wireless.org.au]On Behalf Of Ryan Abbenhuys
>Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 9:29 PM
>To: melbwireless at wireless.org.au
>Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] Lucent WaveLan 802.11 Cards can they be
>upgraded?
>
>
>If they are Wavelan Bronze cards then they are only "802.11" not
"802.11b".
>The two are incompatible with eachother.
>802.11 is 2Mbit Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum (FHSS), 802.11b is
11Mbit
>Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS). They work completely differently.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "David" <vk3jda at optushome.com.au>
>To: "Melbwireless List" <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
>Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 8:58 PM
>Subject: [MLB-WIRELESS] Lucent WaveLan 802.11 Cards can they be upgraded?
>
>
>> I have a Lucent WaveLan 802.11 card and 2 Lucent WaveLan 802.11 Bronze
>> cards my 802.11b AP sees the cards MAC address but the card manager
>> software reports a firmware version error so I can not config the cards.
>>
>> Dose any one know if they can be upgraded and ware I may find the newer
>> firmware to do this?
>>
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