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Who makes origional ORiNOCO Card

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  • 22-04-2008 10:14pm
    #1
    coldfeet
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    Hi,

    I'm looking to get the ORiNOCO PCMCIA wireless card, I've had a look around the net, and come up with Proxim as the company. My only real question is are they the original maker of the card as I've seen on a few threads to stay away from the Proxim ORiNOCO card. Other than that all I see is copies.

    Can anyone confirm if the Proxim card is the one I'm looking for or have a link to get the card.

    Cheers


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    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 25,126 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    coldfeet wrote: »
    Hi,

    I'm looking to get the ORiNOCO PCMCIA wireless card, I've had a look around the net, and come up with Proxim as the company. My only real question is are they the original maker of the card as I've seen on a few threads to stay away from the Proxim ORiNOCO card. Other than that all I see is copies.

    Can anyone confirm if the Proxim card is the one I'm looking for or have a link to get the card.

    Cheers

    Looking for one for its Linux support?


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    coldfeet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 217 ✭✭coldfeet


    Spot on, also its drivers support software i wanna run in both linux and win.

    Or do you have any alternatives???


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    ZENER
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    The Netgear Dual Band WAG511 is a well supported card under Linux and is a preferred weapon for Wireless Sniffers.
    It supports Packet Re-Injection etc.

    Check out Aircrack-ng, they have a good section on compatible cards/chipsets that work under Linux.

    ZEN


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    Spear
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    coldfeet wrote: »
    Spot on, also its drivers support software i wanna run in both linux and win.

    Or do you have any alternatives???

    There's a lot more wireless chipsets in the kernel these days. Are you after a specific function, such as packet injection, or a certain app support?


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    coldfeet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 217 ✭✭coldfeet


    Ya I wanna run aircrack and aireplay through backtrack for some encryption testing. I know that the orinoco card is already supported in it.


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    Spear
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    Broadcom chipsets work with it, and there's a patch here to improve performance with them

    http://aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=b43


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    ZENER
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    Hi Coldfeet - I use the card I mentioned above with BackTrack 2 and all the apps you mention and can vouch for its functionality. It works in Active and Passive mode - supports re-injection.

    ZEN


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    mayhem#
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    The Orinoco line of wireless products was originally manufactured by Lucent, Avaya and Proxim. Proxim has since been bought by another company but still sells the Orinoco product line.
    I presume that you are looking for one of the type that they manufactured 3+ years ago.
    There should be a list of card with corresponding chipsets on the No-Cat or NYC-Wireless websites...


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    Capt'n Midnight
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    if it's the older chip set then Buffalo and Entrasys were also the same in linux and wern't they called wavecom at one stage ?


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