Lucent WaveLAN Gold

[kite210]

I got this about a week ago, but didn't get around to setting it up till now.

I ordered a WaveLAN Silver that was firmware upgraded to a Gold card from ebay, and it works quite well.

I'm currently using it with my PowerBook G3 (WallStreet rev.2), with airport drivers.

I'll post pics when I get the time.

Anybody else have a WaveLAN?

 

[Unknown_K]

Yea, I have a small stack of silvers because they work in Macs and all my old PC laptops (they have DOS/Win3.1/NT/9x drivers).

 

[Gorgonops]

I recently learned a stupid pet trick you can do under Linux with any Wavelan (silver/gold) card. Regardless of what firmware version the card is flashed with those cards have some onboard RAM that lets your soft-load an alternate firmware. Doing so will let those cards work all the way up to WPA1/TKIP standards so you can use them on almost-modern networks. LINK (You are of course boned if the network is limited to WPA2/AES clients.)

Of course that's of little relevance for any other OS but I was amused by it. It let me get an *oooold* Pentium lunchbox computer onto my home network using a WaveLan Silver stuffed into an ISA->PCMCIA carrier board.

 

[J English Smith]

I use waveLAN silvers for my PB1400s and for my Lombards. They work well with little fuss.

 

[kite210]

I'm currently using mine (WaveLAN Silver Flashed to Gold) with my PowerBook G3 WallStreet(PDQ) to connect to my home network with WEP encryption active on my 802.11g router. It's nice to be able to access my Power Mac G3, MacBook, and my PC on my PowerBook without being tied to an ethernet cable :beige: