lincomatic

OK, let's put this one to bed now. I've communicated with several others who say it hasn't worked for them either.
I've done some analysis, and contrary to the claims, the windows-based hack DOES NOT contain modified drivers. I diffed the files w/ the originals from ORiNOCO, and here is what i found:

drivers (winter 2002 7.4 release):
all the files are identical except for the INF's. the INF in the "hacked" version merely removes all references to cards other than the ORiNOCO silver (Lucent_Technologies-WaveLAN/IEEE-C908)

firmware updater (8.10 f/w):
again, the only difference is that references to the non-silver cards have been removed. The silver card's string has been moved to the front of the list, and the others are all filled w/ zeros.

I seriously doubt that this hack works at all. The only thing they've done is make the drivers & firmware updater work only w/ the silver card.

BTW, as has been discussed before in other threads, for anyone who wants to run the Lucent ORiNOCO f/w updater w/ non-Lucent branded cards, cards, all you have to do is:
1) via the device manager, override the driver you have installed w/ the ORiNOCO-branded drivers
2) use a binary editor and insert the proper string for your non-Lucent-branded card. Just search for the string
"Lucent_Technologies-WaveLAN/IEEE-911F" and replace it w/ the proper one for your card and terminate it with a NULL. Then run the updater. This will work w/ any version of the firmware updater.

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~lincomatic