[NTLK] AirPort Express and Newton

[Dennis Swaney]

Thanks, but I have a vague memory that in order for WiFi to work there were
two or three packages that had to be installed on the Newton in a strict
particular order. I need to know the following:
1. a list of those packages
2. where to download the packages
3. the particular sequence or order in which to install each package

Sincerely,
Dennis B. Swaney

"Cogito Ergo Mac"


On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 12:29 PM arceeHS <arceehs at gmail.com> wrote:

> Newton Wireless Cards
>
> 1. Hiroshi Noguchi wrote his Newton wireless driver based on a Lucent
> WaveLan PCMCIA Card. The Lucent Model Number for this card is
> PC24E-H-FC.
>
> 2. The WaveLan card is based on Lucent’s Hermes chipset. It meets, by
> definition, 801.2b Wi-Fi standards. The Hermes chipset is the key
> consideration in whether or not any wireless card will work with
> Noguchi-san’s driver.
>
> 3. In addition to the various supplier’s names used during the
> corporate disintegration of Lucent Technologies (Lucent, Avaya,
> Agere), the Hermes chipset was used in cards with a variety of other
> supplier names - Dell, Buffalo, Farallon, Compaq come readily to mind
> - there are others. Whether these cards were made by Lucent for the
> other suppliers labels or made by them under license is irrelevant
> here.
>
> 4. Also, the Lucent-based supplier names used a second version of the
> Hermes chipset in ORiNOCO model-designated cards. Some of these cards,
> but not all, carry Model Number PC24E-11-FC/R.
>
> 5. Most all of the other suppliers also had wireless PCMCIA cards
> based on technology other than the Hermes chipset, ofttimes with the
> same card name and nothing more than a different version
> letter/number. The most common (but not universal) identifier for the
> Hermes cards usually has some or all the Lucent PC24E-H-FC or
> PC24E-11-FC/R model number.
>
> 6. The most definitive indicator that a wireless card, independent of
> the marketing drivel on the card or in the supplier’s literature, will
> work in a Newton with with Noguchi-san’s wireless driver is the FC ID
> number that is found on every wireless card. Here, either FCC IDs
> IMRWLPCE24H or IMRWLPCE2411R is required.
>
> arceehs
>
> On 7/11/20, Dennis Swaney <romad at nvwisp.com> wrote:
> > I had an Enterasys RoamAbout 802.11 DS but never could get it to work
> > before; maybe I'll try again. Do you have a link to the required software
> > AND the correct install sequence, Pawel? I just went searching for them
> on
> > my iMac and can't find them either in my iMac's Newton folder or in the
> > Newton folder in my web browser bookmarks.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Dennis B. Swaney
> >
> > "Cogito Ergo Mac"
> -SNIP-
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