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04-06-2002

Well, sure if you want to hack it. The firmware update from Orinoco looks for an installed driver for the card. So you have to modify the inf file from the Orinoco driver so that it sees the IBM card in order to install the Orinoco driver. The ID byte in the pccard is different on the IBM card. Look in the IBM inf file for an example.

If you are using the Lucent driver, then you should be able to update the firmware.

You could also hex edit the Orinoco update program and change the text "Lucent ..." with the info on the IBM card. Not sure this will work though, as the text string from the IBM card is greater in length than the Lucent and using the entire IBM string makes the executable unusable. So I hacked the inf file.

04-06-2002	#4 (permalink)
Posts: n/a	Well, sure if you want to hack it. The firmware update from Orinoco looks for an installed driver for the card. So you have to modify the inf file from the Orinoco driver so that it sees the IBM card in order to install the Orinoco driver. The ID byte in the pccard is different on the IBM card. Look in the IBM inf file for an example. If you are using the Lucent driver, then you should be able to update the firmware. You could also hex edit the Orinoco update program and change the text "Lucent ..." with the info on the IBM card. Not sure this will work though, as the text string from the IBM card is greater in length than the Lucent and using the entire IBM string makes the executable unusable. So I hacked the inf file.