[9fans] wavelan cards question: orinoco is/is not avaya?

[9fans] wavelan cards question: orinoco is/is not avaya?

[Axel Belinfante]

Rephrased: does the orinoco driver support avaya cards?
(my first (and single) experiment seems to indicate: no)
Or are these (completely?) different?

I'm sorry if this is a silly question...
Axel.

Re: [9fans] wavelan cards question: orinoco is/is not avaya?

[david presotto]

In my 9 month stint with Avaya, we were selling Orinoco cards under
the Avaya trademark.  However, as I was leaving (in March) the talk
was to drop Orinoco in favor of something else for our rebrand.
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> > I don't think Avaya cards have anything to do
> > with Orinoco.  The WaveLAN/Orinoco cards went
> > to Agere, and have recently been bought by Proxim.
>
> Nevertheless,
>
> 1. A quick search of the 'net suggests that the Avaya card
>     has the Hermes chipset (www.hoelzner.de/security/wlan.php),
>     same as Orinoco
>
> 2. The FreeBSD driver does not have any special recognition in
>     it for Avaya, yet the releases notes specially mention support.
>
> 3. Avaya sell exactly the same range of products as Orinoco, right
>     down to the sexy range extender antenna, and 'silver' and
>     'gold' cards
>
> I think it will identify itself as Lucent/Wavelan. You can check this
> of course.
>
>

Re: [9fans] wavelan cards question: orinoco is/is not avaya?

[Axel Belinfante]

It identifies itself as:

	"Avaya Wireless PC Card",

Inserting above line in /sys/src/9/pc/wavelan.c seems to do the job.
(setting - I think - only essid (mayb not even that);
 have not tried encryption , and only access point mode).

Axel.

> > I don't think Avaya cards have anything to do
> > with Orinoco.  The WaveLAN/Orinoco cards went
> > to Agere, and have recently been bought by Proxim.
>
> Nevertheless,
>
> 1. A quick search of the 'net suggests that the Avaya card
>     has the Hermes chipset (www.hoelzner.de/security/wlan.php),
>     same as Orinoco
>
> 2. The FreeBSD driver does not have any special recognition in
>     it for Avaya, yet the releases notes specially mention support.
>
> 3. Avaya sell exactly the same range of products as Orinoco, right
>     down to the sexy range extender antenna, and 'silver' and
>     'gold' cards
>
> I think it will identify itself as Lucent/Wavelan. You can check this
> of course.

Re: [9fans] wavelan cards question: orinoco is/is not avaya?

[nigel]

> I don't think Avaya cards have anything to do
> with Orinoco.  The WaveLAN/Orinoco cards went
> to Agere, and have recently been bought by Proxim.

Nevertheless,

1. A quick search of the 'net suggests that the Avaya card
    has the Hermes chipset (www.hoelzner.de/security/wlan.php),
    same as Orinoco

2. The FreeBSD driver does not have any special recognition in
    it for Avaya, yet the releases notes specially mention support.

3. Avaya sell exactly the same range of products as Orinoco, right
    down to the sexy range extender antenna, and 'silver' and
    'gold' cards

I think it will identify itself as Lucent/Wavelan. You can check this
of course.

Re: [9fans] wavelan cards question: orinoco is/is not avaya?

[Russ Cox]

I don't think Avaya cards have anything to do
with Orinoco.  The WaveLAN/Orinoco cards went
to Agere, and have recently been bought by Proxim.

Re: [9fans] wavelan cards question: orinoco is/is not avaya?

[nigel]

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I suspect that it is exactly the same.

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From: Axel Belinfante <Axel.Belinfante@cs.utwente.nl>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] wavelan cards question: orinoco is/is not avaya?
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 15:56:47 +0200
Message-ID: <200208301356.g7UDuli29304@zamenhof.cs.utwente.nl>

Rephrased: does the orinoco driver support avaya cards?
(my first (and single) experiment seems to indicate: no)
Or are these (completely?) different?

I'm sorry if this is a silly question...
Axel.