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

Ryan Abbenhuys sneeze at alphalink.com.au
Mon Jun 21 21:28:44 EST 2004


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>
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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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