[MLB-WIRELESS] windows 95 and orinico cards

[Robert Davidson]

Ryan Abbenhuys wrote:
> These cards won't bridge at all under any OS.
> Orinoco, Enterasys, Agere, etc all the same card.
> 
> I suspect is something to do with the something-or-other layer in networking
> terms that I don't know :-\
> But whatever it is, the definetly can't be bridged.
> 
> I believe Prism chipset based cards can be bridged.  Although I have only
> tested this under Linux.
> 

I've managed to "bridge" a Enterasys card (Vak special) with a wired 
network on Win95 or Win98.  I had to use a 3rd party program to do it, 
but it did a just "OK" job.  The only problem with it was that under 
Windows on my P90 laptop, the laptop became unusable whenever any 
reasonable amount of traffic was going between the wired and wireless 
networks.  The Enterasys card was acting as an AP also.

If you's want the name of the program I believe it was EtherBridge but 
I'm not sure.  It was free and command-line based.  I have it on a 
laptop hard drive image so if need be I can fish it out and put it 
online.  The program wasn't easy to find at the time.

So.. it can be done.  But on a 486 (which is original sender specified 
in his e-mail from memory) it would be a lost cause.

-- 
Regards,
Robert Davidson.
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