Dell had an older PCMCIA product differing from the Trumobile 1150 series with Lucent/Agere chips everyone talks about. Support and compatibility for the current series is NOT a problem when one follows the written clues to origins and model compatibilities: newer Dell Truemobile 1150 PCMCIA cards are the Lucent/Agere version of Lucent's original Orinoco Gold product, not the Proxim version of the Orinoco products. Dell/Lucent/Agere software updates work on Dell 1150 PCMCIA cards, but Proxim stuff (a buyer, not a producer of these cards) does not. My Dell card shows the Lucent name and symbol. I think Lucent (now Agere Systems - and their PA foundry, not the MN group) makes the chips for all. Orinoco is now Proxim's "housebrand" and probably has silly stuff in the firmware to limit compatibility with non-Proxim cards. I would not buy a Proxim product because of the compatibility limits I found recently with my Dell card (I know some of the Lucent/Bell Labs chip guys who do the Dell stuff and trust/respect them, but not Proxim which is only their customer if that much). Chuck > -----Original Message----- > From: tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org > [mailto:tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of Andy Zbikowski > (Zibby) > Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 3:10 PM > To: TCLUG > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] wireless pcmcia card recommendations?.. > > > | Thanks, I just ordered a Dell Truemobile 1150. :-D > > Be careful with those. I seem to recall that Dell changed them from > orinico silver to something else at some point, but kept the Truemobile > 1150 name. Kinda like how there are 4 or 5 (more now?) revisions of the > Linksys LNE100 card...only worse. > > Andrew S. Zbikowski | http://www.ringworld.org > A password is like your underwear; Change it > frequently, don't share it with others, and > don't ask to borrow someone else's. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list