Article:		The Penny-Pinching PowerBook 1400 Goes Wireless
Subject:		Glad to see you joining the club
Date:		2006-03-25 00:42:37
From:		DigitalBill
Response to: Glad to see you joining the club
Curious about the working 1400 setup with the Bronze card. Having some trouble with the WaveLAN Bronze card under 8.6 in my PB1400. Installed the v7.2 Orinoco software, but it keeps complaining about "Incompatible Station firmware". Versions are listed in the Orinoco Control Panel as: Hardware 3.0, Primary Firmware 2.4, Station firmware 3.6. Trying to connect with our network's Linksys WRT54G router. Any suggestions? Perhaps one of the WaveLAN drivers instead of the Orinoco? I'd appreciate any advice...

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• Glad to see you joining the club
  2006-03-25 22:07:39  mnorton [View]
  
  
  hi,
  
  Don't know about the firmware problem but I do know i had to setup a separate PUBLIC network for using my old laptops and guest access at the old homestead.
  
  I have a linksys wireless G router configured or should say lack of configuration for this. My Dell 1150 wifi card I used for the article logs into this network.
  
  As does my sons old toshiba laptop using a Dell 1150.
  
  Mike
  
• Glad to see you joining the club
  2006-04-07 06:30:05  DigitalBill [View]
  
  
  Thanks, Mike.
  
  I suspect my main problem is the Bronze card. Most reports indicate that particular card won't work, so that's why I was curious about the poster who listed it as his card of choice.
  
  I may try my hand at picking up a Silver or Gold card, or the Dell 1150 TrueMobile you had so much success with, to see if that makes a diff. But if you can give me any more details about your "zero-config" network configutation that may be worth a shot as well.
  
  --Bill
• Glad to see you joining the club
  2006-04-13 12:55:14  DigitalBill [View]
  
  
  Well, I picked up s TrueMobile 1150, popped it into the 1400, ran the SetUp Assistant, found my network, had the Assistant set up an Orinoco config, got the bars and thought Woo-hoo! I'm home free!
  
  But...I can't upload/download e-mail and I can't connect to any sites in my browser. Granted, I'm running 8.6, Eudora and IE, but still... I checked the TCP/IP control panel and the Orinoco software properly set up the Orinoco config; and my network is listed right there.
  
  What am I missing?
• Glad to see you joining the club - and I have!!!
  2006-04-13 21:23:44  DigitalBill [View]
  
  
  OK, I'm, an idiot. All it took was some futzing around with the TCP/IP and security settings, as well as changing AppleTalk to wireless as well, and some trial-and-error to make sure I hadn't missed anything. Now I'm connecting easily to the Internet through the Linksys Wireless-G router, plus sharing files with my dual-proc G4 and my venerable ol' Power Computing clone as well as printing to my Laserjet 5MP through an AsanteTalk box! WOW!
  
  Mike, if not for you and Derek Miller's instructions at http://www.penmachine.com/techie/airport1400.html, I couldn't have done it. THANK YOU VERY, VERY MUCH!!!
• Powerbook 1400 Wireless Idiot needs help
  2007-01-23 18:26:47  karlsvogn [View]
  
  
  Hi DigitalBill,
  
  I had the same experience that you did with the orinoco wifi card except I haven't gotten to the happy part of the story. I have also futzed around with tcp/ip and apple talk. I see the bars for the lokal wireless ap's and I put in the network encryption codes and it seens to be ok, but I can't seem to get connected. I keep getting the wrong kind of ip address. I get that 196 ip address.
  Any suggestions?
  
  Karlsvogn