For another data point ...
I had the identical problem with my bronze card (flash briefly). I got one
of the silver cards and plugged it in, and it just worked with my existing
Bronze 4.0 driver and application. I didn't need to update either the
silver card firmware or the driver SW. This is on NT 4.0.
Cheers,
Andy
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At 07:38 AM 3/28/00 +0800, amlan(_at_)geektown(_dot_)net wrote:
[ From: rlmorgan(_at_)washington(_dot_)edu ][ Date: 22:31 (+0930), Mar 27, 2000
]
> I brought with me to IETF 47 a WaveLAN Turbo Bronze
> wireless card which I use daily in my office at home,
> but it doesn't appear to work with the
> WaveLAN-Silver-based wireless net here (the LEDs
> flash briefly as though it's not finding the named
> network). Other folks here with Bronze cards also
> find they don't work, regardless of laptop or OS.
> So are we bronze toters just out of luck? Is it a
> known thing that WaveLAN Bronze cards are not
> interoperable with Silver? Anything to be done to
> fix?
The Wavelan site does mention that once the cards' firwares are
upgraded to version 6.0, which in this case is so, the base
stations (aka access points) also need to be upgraded; however
once they (access points) are upgraded, the version 4.0 of the
firmware in the older(bronze) cards will NOT work with the
upgraded base stations.
I am stuck with a so-called "old" card as well. :(
/amlan.