Re: Orinoco Gold, Silver, Combo? What works, what doesn't and what's the best?

From: Timothy Murphy (tim_at_birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie)
Date: 04/28/04 

Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 12:45:18 +0100

theanswriz42 wrote:

> I'm looking to purchase an Orinoco pcmcia card for my laptop. I've seen
> some that are Orinoco Silver, some are Gold and some have a combination
> of 802.11a/b. I'm not sure what I should pick up and what the benefits
> are of each card (or even if they are supported for that matter (i'm
> running 2.6.x). Also, some of the cards seem to be made by Proxim, some
> Lucent, some WavLan and some branded with Orinoco itself.
>
> Any advise would be wonderful. I've heard from people that they didn't
> think the combination cards were supported but you guys probably know
> more about that than me.

I don't know whether the combination cards work under Linux, but I have
a number of classic Orinoco Gold and Orinoco Silver 802.11b PCMCIA cards
which work perfectly with Linux (and Windows),
and which I am offering for sale.
[They are surplus to a project which went over to Bluetooth.]

I'm using a laptop with a Gold card now;
I have a Silver card in another laptop
which appears to me to work just as well as the Gold
after I upgraded the firmware.
I'm not sure there is really a difference between the cards.
(The Gold cards are said to be 11Mbs and the Silver 2Mbs.)

I use the standard orinoco_cs driver with Linux,
which I think comes as a kernel module with all distributions.
These cards have always worked out of the box for me
(with Linux and Windows-2000/XP),
which is more than I can say for other WiFi cards I've tried.

In any case I am selling the Gold cards for 45 euro (or $50)
and the Silver cards for 35 euro (or $40).
They are brand new in their boxes.

Apologies if this posting is breaking the rules. 

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Timothy Murphy  
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