ORiNOCO
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ORiNOCO is the brand name that was used for a family of wireless networking solutions by Proxim (previously Lucent). These chipsets (codenamed Hermes) provide wireless connectivity for 802.11-compliant Wireless LANs.
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[edit] Variants
Lucent offered several variants of the PC Card, referred to by different color-based monikers:
- White/Bronze: Standard WaveLAN IEEE 2 Mbit/s PC Cards with 802.11 support
- Silver: WaveLAN IEEE Turbo 11 Mbit/s PC Cards with 802.11b and 64-bit WEP support
- Gold: WaveLAN IEEE Turbo 11 Mbit/s PC Cards, with support for 802.11b and 128-bit WEP
Later models dropped the 'Turbo' moniker due to 802.11b 11 Mbit/s becoming widespread.
Proxim, after taking over Lucent's wireless division, rebranded all their wireless cards to ORiNOCO - even cards not based on Lucent/Agere's Hermes chipset. Proxim however still offer for sale the true ORiNOCO-based cards under the 'Classic' name.
[edit] Rebranded products
The WaveLAN chipsets that power ORiNOCO-branded cards were commonly used to power other wireless networking devices, and are compatible with a number of other access points, routers and wireless cards. The following brand and models utilise the chipset, or are rebrands of an ORiNOCO product:
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- 3Com AirConnect
- Cabletron RoamAbout 802.11 DS
- Compaq WL100 11 Mbit/s Wireless Adapter
- D-Link DWL-650
- ELSA AirLancer MC-11
- Ericsson WLAN Card C11
- Farallon SkyLINE
- HyperLink Wireless PC Card 11Mbit/s
- Intel PRO/Wireless 2011
- LA4111 Spectrum24 Wireless LAN PC Card
- Lucent Technologies Wavelan/IEEE Orinoco
- Melco WLI-PCM-L11
- Microsoft Wireless Notebook Adapter MN-520
- NCR WaveLAN/IEEE Adapter
- Proxim LAN PC CARD HARMONY 80211B
- Samsung 11Mbit/s WLAN Card
- AVAYA World Card
[edit] Preferred wireless chipset for wardriving
The ORiNOCO (and their derivatives) is preferred by wardrivers, due to their high sensitivity and the ability to report the level of noise (something that other chips won't report). The pre-Proxim (or 'Classic') ORiNOCO cards have a jack for attaching an external antenna. [2]
[edit] Linux drivers
The open source HermesAP driver supports the IEEE 802.11b Hermes/ORiNOCO family of chips.
