The Lucent (ORiNOCO) WaveLAN Turbo Gold 802.11b wireless card purchased on eBay arrived Friday. Spent Friday night and the wee hours of Saturday attempting to get this card to connect. Could not make it happen. Did manage to make a connection with a 3Com eithernet card, so I suspect the problem is with the wireless setup. My home network consists of a high speed connection from sprint wireless broadband to a Linksys router. The router provides DHCP services. Connected to the router is one Apple Airport and a G4 system. One iMac and iBook are connected through the Airport device. The Newton wireless connection attempted was to the G4 system using NewtSync.
Currently have successful connected using a serial cable with Keyspan adapter, and a 3Com eithernet card. In both cases, was able to successfully sync data using NewtSync 0.3k. This is great software.
Have installed Hiroshi’s WanLan driver and tried multiple setup combinations but could not connect. I just get a message that it can’t find my G4. When I replace the wireless card with the 3Com eithernet card the connection is made. At this point I don’t have a clue of what is causing the problem. For now I have just walked away from the problem. Will wait and tackle it again with a more rested brain.
Ramblings of an old computer engineer/developer 