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

David vk3jda at optushome.com.au
Mon Jun 21 22:46:00 EST 2004


The AP (802.11b) can see the MAC address in its list of stations connected 
if the cards where FHSS they would not connect to a 802.11b AP! (there may 
be 2 type of the card).

Mark do you know where I can get Version 6 + that you talked about? and how 
to upgrade them?

Thanks
David.



At 22:26 21/06/2004, Mark Allen wrote:
>Just so you all know I'm quite happly using my 4 bronze cards around the
>house for web surfing...
>
>2 aps both have gold 11mbps and silver 11mbps and I give the 2mbps cards to
>laptop users...
>
>Version 6+ made them compatible with other B equipment, before that they
>where there own flavour, and they had a turbo mode which apparently spoofed
>them up to 8mbps...
>
>Just some information ;)
>
>Mark A
>BrisMesh ;)
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Ryan Abbenhuys" <sneeze at alphalink.com.au>
>To: <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
>Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 9:28 PM
>Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] Lucent WaveLan 802.11 Cards can they be
>upgraded?
>
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> > 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?
> > >
> > >            David
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