Who makes origional ORiNOCO Card

coldfeet

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

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?

coldfeet

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

Or do you have any alternatives???

ZENER

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

Spear

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?

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.

Spear

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

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

ZENER

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

mayhem#

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...

Capt'n Midnight

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 ?