BreezeNET PC-DS.11b

jpainter · 07-23-2002

After spending about 3 hours hacking the latest Orinoco drivers with this card with a Hex editor as described in the posting:

http://forums.netstumbler.com/showth...driver+orinoco

I am asking for help. This card is a orinoco gold clone like the compaq, buffalo, truemobile etc. I managed to hack the drivers to the point to where they would install and netstumbler would work, but for some reason no matter how much I worked on them, I could not get the card to read a MAC Address into win2000 (ipconfig /all shows all 0's), associate with the wireless lan, or pull down a IP address via DHCP (tried loading a static with no success). I didn't try upgrading to Orinoco firmware because I was worried I might not be able to put it back to "normal" if it didnt work.

Has anyone attempted any of this with this card?? The @$%$ card didn't come with drivers (what you expect for $55 delivered, I suppose) and Alvarion's website doesn't have the right driver listed (they show a PC-DS.11 driver, which is missing the "b" and the drivers inside the ZIP are prism2 based, and will not install). Does anyone have the Alvarion, Breezenet drivers for this card they could email or let me FTP?

Cheers,
Justin

jpainter · 07-24-2002

For the forum's searchability/info sake....

I called Alvarion's technical support today and surprisingly enough, got to talk to a real live person, leave a message, and had a tech call me back within 45 minutes. The gentleman was very helpful, was nice enough to make a RAR of the CDROM and mail it to me.

I loaded the right drivers, and all is well now. The card is defintely a Orinoco Gold, and the Alvarion's (Formerly Breezecom) driver CD has the following drivers:

98MeUSB, DOS, Linux, NT4.0, WIN2k, WIN95, WIN98_ME, WinCE30, WINXP

I am running the win2k drivers and they look and smell just like the Latest Orinoco drivers.

The card has the jack in the end of it (standard Orinoco one) with a little dust cover on it.

These Cards are on http://www.pricewatch.com (search or orinoco gold) for $49 + $6 Shipping. All that came in the package was the card, no drivers, no case, no box.

Hope this helps someone who is looking for a good deal!

lincomatic · 07-24-2002

i tried to do a search for you last nite and turned up nothing. glad you found something that works. so does it have the orinoco client manager too? if so, you can check your firmware rev in the about box.

jpainter · 07-24-2002

Attached is a pic, are these the newest ones?

lincomatic · 07-24-2002

Quote:

Originally posted by jpainter
Attached is a pic, are these the newest ones?

8.10 is the latest stuff from orinoco. but the latest is not good for running sniffers since they seem to have broken rfmon mode. i'm really not sure what's good about the latest f/w except that they claim it supports WEPPlus for eliminating "weak keys" in WEP, but this works only when associating w/ a similarly upgrade orinoco AP.

most people w/ sniffing s/w are using 6.06 or 6.16, although some have gotten 7.xx f/w to work too.

asylist · 08-01-2002

hey Justin:

you still have that CD RAR handy? I'm planning on ordering one of those cards soon, thanks for the legwork! hehe

Asylist

jpainter · 08-01-2002

Yes I have it, if you have an email address that can accept a 25 meg email I'll email it to you.

asylist · 08-01-2002

not yet, moving in a month and dropping the crappy Comcast service so I can set up my own mail server. in the meantime, send it to my buddy at noweb4u@mainframe.timmins.net thanks

jpainter · 08-01-2002

I set a reminder in my palm for Monday, I won't be back in the office with access to the .RAR until then.

asylist · 08-01-2002

alright cool. thanks

its gonna be a week or so before I get the card anyway, so no biggie on my end. luckily my buddy is loaning me an actual Orinoco Gold this weekend to play with for a while.

nashr · 08-09-2002

jpainter,

The Alvarion site is horribly laid out. No drivers available on the site. Couldn't find any contact numbers. If you could share that info with me I'd be very grateful. Thanks!

jpainter · 08-09-2002

http://www.alvarion-usa.com/RunTime/...p?tNodeParam=1

I have the drivers on a RAR image. If your email client can handle a 20 meg email ill send em over.

FYI
DO NOT DOWNLOAD THE PC-DS.11 DRIVERS !! If you have installed these drivers, you will have to uninstall them figure out which INF file they are pointing to and delete it before the PC-DS.11b DRIVERS will work.

07-23-2002	#1 (permalink)
jpainter Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 38	BreezeNET PC-DS.11b After spending about 3 hours hacking the latest Orinoco drivers with this card with a Hex editor as described in the posting: http://forums.netstumbler.com/showth...driver+orinoco I am asking for help. This card is a orinoco gold clone like the compaq, buffalo, truemobile etc. I managed to hack the drivers to the point to where they would install and netstumbler would work, but for some reason no matter how much I worked on them, I could not get the card to read a MAC Address into win2000 (ipconfig /all shows all 0's), associate with the wireless lan, or pull down a IP address via DHCP (tried loading a static with no success). I didn't try upgrading to Orinoco firmware because I was worried I might not be able to put it back to "normal" if it didnt work. Has anyone attempted any of this with this card?? The @$%$ card didn't come with drivers (what you expect for $55 delivered, I suppose) and Alvarion's website doesn't have the right driver listed (they show a PC-DS.11 driver, which is missing the "b" and the drivers inside the ZIP are prism2 based, and will not install). Does anyone have the Alvarion, Breezenet drivers for this card they could email or let me FTP? Cheers, Justin

07-24-2002	#3 (permalink)
lincomatic Squaaawk! WiFi! WiFi! Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Tinsel Town Posts: 1,682	i tried to do a search for you last nite and turned up nothing. glad you found something that works. so does it have the orinoco client manager too? if so, you can check your firmware rev in the about box. __________________ ~lincomatic

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nashr Uber Geek Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Virginia Posts: 1,624	# for support? jpainter, The Alvarion site is horribly laid out. No drivers available on the site. Couldn't find any contact numbers. If you could share that info with me I'd be very grateful. Thanks!

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07-24-2002	#2 (permalink)
jpainter Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 38	For the forum's searchability/info sake.... I called Alvarion's technical support today and surprisingly enough, got to talk to a real live person, leave a message, and had a tech call me back within 45 minutes. The gentleman was very helpful, was nice enough to make a RAR of the CDROM and mail it to me. I loaded the right drivers, and all is well now. The card is defintely a Orinoco Gold, and the Alvarion's (Formerly Breezecom) driver CD has the following drivers: 98MeUSB, DOS, Linux, NT4.0, WIN2k, WIN95, WIN98_ME, WinCE30, WINXP I am running the win2k drivers and they look and smell just like the Latest Orinoco drivers. The card has the jack in the end of it (standard Orinoco one) with a little dust cover on it. These Cards are on http://www.pricewatch.com (search or orinoco gold) for $49 + $6 Shipping. All that came in the package was the card, no drivers, no case, no box. Hope this helps someone who is looking for a good deal!

08-01-2002	#6 (permalink)
asylist Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: howell, michigan Posts: 9	hey Justin: you still have that CD RAR handy? I'm planning on ordering one of those cards soon, thanks for the legwork! hehe Asylist

08-01-2002	#7 (permalink)
jpainter Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 38	Yes I have it, if you have an email address that can accept a 25 meg email I'll email it to you.

08-01-2002	#8 (permalink)
asylist Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: howell, michigan Posts: 9	not yet, moving in a month and dropping the crappy Comcast service so I can set up my own mail server. in the meantime, send it to my buddy at noweb4u@mainframe.timmins.net thanks

08-01-2002	#9 (permalink)
jpainter Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 38	I set a reminder in my palm for Monday, I won't be back in the office with access to the .RAR until then.

08-01-2002	#10 (permalink)
asylist Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: howell, michigan Posts: 9	alright cool. thanks its gonna be a week or so before I get the card anyway, so no biggie on my end. luckily my buddy is loaning me an actual Orinoco Gold this weekend to play with for a while.

08-09-2002	#12 (permalink)
jpainter Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 38	http://www.alvarion-usa.com/RunTime/...p?tNodeParam=1 I have the drivers on a RAR image. If your email client can handle a 20 meg email ill send em over. FYI DO NOT DOWNLOAD THE PC-DS.11 DRIVERS !! If you have installed these drivers, you will have to uninstall them figure out which INF file they are pointing to and delete it before the PC-DS.11b DRIVERS will work.