I know this has been asked before and I have tried the suggestions listed here and on the linksys site with no success. I have a linksys WAP11 that works fine with my linksys WPC11 card, I came across a great deal on a Orinoco silver card and bought it. I can get the card to see another network in my neighborhood, but that's not what I'm wanting to do, I want the card to work with my router. To reiterate, I have tried all the suggestions on the linksys site, the laptop I have the card in has no problem seeing the card and even the configuration for the card when using the client manager seems to see the linksys router when attempting to re-new the ip address I get the message that it has connected to the linksys router, but it fails stating that it could not re-new the ip address. It's almost as if the ip is hard coded and cannot be over written. Any help would be appreciated.

Shawn

I found out that somehow, my WAP11 had a firmware release of 1.40.3, I checked the linksys site and found that the latest release was 1.39.2

I have no idea how this happened, maybe a screw up at the linksys testing/shipping. Anyway, I flashed the 1.39.2 and now everything works as expected.

Shawn

poopie

I'm having the same problem with my linksys WAP11 and my Orinoco Silver card ...It detects the AP and I get good signal strength but when I try to access internet or anything ...I get nothing. When I try to release and renew...I dont get an IP assigned to me. Any thoughts????? I did perform the "hack" on the wap11 ...so i thought maybe the card is having trouble cause of the high noise that the hack produces????? Any thoughts???

blackwave

Why not try to trouble shoot your connection issues by buying either a new AP, or a new card, and returning whichever doesn't work when you are done. I certainly would especially if I wasn't into wasting time. It is very possible that you got the luck of the draw and get some bad hardware.

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poopie

Can't be the hardware cause the WAP11 works fine with the linksys WPC11 card and also with the Compaq WL100...it seems to be only cards that use the Lucent chipset, i have a suspicion that the hack is creating too much noise and that the Lucent cards are more sensitve to noise.

rcktdg

I have an orinoco gold and the wap11 2.2 and it seems to be a no go. I have a compaq ipaq wireless card that I have been able to browse the network through the WAP11. Installing the Orinoco in winxp has everything looking alright but no packets received.

It rocks with NS though. I can see all kinds of networks. I just can't get anything to actually do anything??? I am still digging around for now.

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rcktdg

I followed the instructions on the link in the above post and it worked. I am both a guest and member currently.

I was having trouble with the WEP before and I am currently wide open but one thing at a time. I still don't fully understand how to configure it on the orinoco.

Things are improving slowly...
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yoadrian

Same problem here with the Orinoco cards and Linksys AP. But I returned my linksys box because I think it is a flaky model. Maybe the wap11 works better but the BEFW11S4 (EtherFast Wireless AP + Cable/DSL Router w/4-Port Switch) just seemed like poor integration. Beside the unit itself, the support from Linksys sucks. Nowhere can you find documentation on the what all the wirleless settings are or what some of the other 'advanced features' do.

So I returned it and built a homebrew AP. I set up an old 200mhz Pentium I had with XP, a nic card and a pcmcia adapter with an old Orinoco bronze card. Installed the Orinoco drivers then added the reg entry APMode="1" in the right spot which I got from another thread here. I changed the OwnName and OwnSSID to "HomeBrew" and OwnChannel to "1" or whatever channel you want. After your clients can see the new AP, go back to your XP network settings and create a bridge with your nic and Orinoco card. Then the clients will get their ip and get on the net through your new wireless bridge.

Side bar: In the experiment I found a vast difference in the card types. With the Bronze card as the AP, it offers 2,5 & 8 mbps to the wireless clients. So if I have a silver card in my laptop, I get a 2mbps connection because the silver cards do not support 5 or 8. They have options of 2, 5.5 and 11mbps. So my other machine with a bronze card gets an 8mb connection but my silver ends up with a crummy 2mb... If I run the silver card in AP then the bronze clients get 2mb and if there were other silver clients they would get 11 mb I'm sure. I only have the one silver card here for this test. The linksys acts like the silver card and offers the same speed options.

-YoAdrian

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yoadrian

Same problem here with the Orinoco cards and Linksys AP. But I returned my linksys box because I think it is a flaky model. Maybe the wap11 works better but the BEFW11S4 (EtherFast Wireless AP + Cable/DSL Router w/4-Port Switch) just seemed like poor integration. Beside the unit itself, the support from Linksys sucks. Nowhere can you find documentation on the what all the wirleless settings are or what some of the other 'advanced features' do.

So I returned it and built a homebrew AP. I set up an old 200mhz Pentium I had with XP, a nic card and a pcmcia adapter with an old Orinoco bronze card. Installed the Orinoco drivers then added the reg entry APMode="1" in the right spot which I got from another thread here. I changed the OwnName and OwnSSID to "HomeBrew" and OwnChannel to "1" or whatever channel you want. After your clients can see the new AP, go back to your XP network settings and create a bridge with your nic and Orinoco card. Then the clients will get their ip and get on the net through your new wireless bridge.

Side bar: In the experiment I found a vast difference in the card types. With the Bronze card as the AP, it offers 2,5 & 8 mbps to the wireless clients. So if I have a silver card in my laptop, I get a 2mbps connection because the silver cards do not support 5 or 8. They have options of 2, 5.5 and 11mbps. So my other machine with a bronze card gets an 8mb connection but my silver ends up with a crummy 2mb... If I run the silver card in AP then the bronze clients get 2mb and if there were other silver clients they would get 11 mb I'm sure. I only have the one silver card here for this test. The linksys acts like the silver card and offers the same speed options.

-YoAdrian

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Pecos

I have an Orinoco Gold card and a WAP11 v2.2 AP. Both of them are working fine together now. Allow me to summarize the problems I encountered...

My laptop has WinXP installed. I installed the Orinco Gold card and XP found it no problem. I updated to the latest drivers (as of 2 weeks ago. Not sure if there has been a new release) from the Agere site.

Things looked like they were working fine. I could view my home network with the AP unsecured. I didn't try the Internet since I was waiting for my DSL to be activated at that time.

I ran into problems when I would activate the the 128bit security until I found that the Orinoco would only seem to work with the FIRST key that was generated and only the first key. After using the first key, I've had no other problems.

Until my DSL was connected and I logged onto the Internet, that is. I could open web pages and receive e-mail just fine, but I could not open any links or send e-mail. I believe I found a post in this forum that led me to rollback the driver from the updated Agere one to the native WinXP driver. Once I did this, everything has been working flawlessly.

rcktdg

I seem to have 128 WEP working fine after mixing what I have read here and other places. I document it more closely in this thread .

I decided to start another thread because my problem was different enough to imply a different solution. I also wanted to include all the buzz words in the message header for future searches.

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poopie

Think I finally resolved the Linksys Problems with not obtaining DHCP lease. I changed a setting on the WAP11 in the advanced setting tab under authentication type, it was on "both" I set this to open system. and under the IP setting tab i switched DHCP primary port to "wireless". Don't ask me how but seems to be working now.

J

acidrayne

I use an Orinoco Silver card with a Linksys Wireless 4 port router and have it set to static on the internals and have no problems. Could just be a problem with the DHCP of the WAP11 itself with nothing to do with the Orinoco card.

Hope you did get it resolved tho ... if not ... go spring for the router instead of just the AP.

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mikev

I also have encountered this issue with another Hermes-based card - Dell Truemobile 1150 MiniPCI.

Anyway...

according to the Linksys knowledge base, if you are using WEP with orinoco cards and a WAP11, you need to enter a hexadecimal WEP key, not the easy-to-use Alphanumeric one.

The kb article shows screen shots of the Orinoco client manager under 98/ME/NT4/2k, but under XP you would just need to enter the appropriate hex key in the proper places in the Windows dialogs.

http://216.237.158.84/cgi-bin/om_isa...W_ENU_JDocView